[apohn]

>I genuinely do not understand the logic of cutting this team to save costs.

I've been in a situation where a company was under pressure, was trying to make a big pivot, and there where multiple rounds of layoffs.

At one point I could only make sense of it by picturing a somewhat blind lumberjack getting an order that says "There's a forest that needs 15% of trees cut. Go cut." Good trees get get, bad trees get cut. Thankfully we are not trees and if we get cut we can move on. We don't die just because we got chopped down.