[feoren]

I cannot imagine what causes company leadership to see a whole team fall apart in short order, with everyone saying it's the fault of this one person, and the leadership shrugging and going "no way to know!". It's the absolute height of lazy, awful leadership.

[leaflets2]

More convenient, short term, to do nothing? Then the leaders can avoid having a conflict with that angry person.

And long term, when this affects the company negatively -- maybe they don't care? What if they're in it for the money and status (they had nice sounding job titles?).

Seems like possibly rational "leadership" to me :-(