There is something romantic about it, but make sure you don't accidentally admire it more than the captain who keeps their ship safe and thus neither of them go down at all. All those captains out there who are faceless/nameless because their ship didn't get blown to pieces.
It was known for a while that he will leave, so it's not like he left because the company has problems. I mean, they are also "only" firing 3-4% of their workforce, which in my understanding is a pretty low number for a mass layoff. And it's mostly a reaction to their massive growth and hirings in the pandemia, which is now over as the company is shrinking back to a normal size.