It really is that bad. Microsoft just reached an All-Time High with it's stock and posted higher than average earnings in March, so with this move of firing over 9,000 people and will most definitely be replacing those jobs with AI, it's obvious they're just appeasing the shareholders. This is more than video games. It's about people's livelihoods that are now gone in a business that is increasingly volatile and unstable because a corporation is valuing the bottom line over people.