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Those "idiots" are now the ones that learned an expensive set of lessons to apply to that v2

So the people that came up with the failed idea get to come up with more flops.

The people that built the flop get to look for a new job building someone else's future flops.

I'm waiting for the surge of native developers fleeing from the food delivery gold rush startups before starting on our native app.

Still doesn't answer why engineers are let go. It's not like they didn't learn lessons too, and their expertise could be used for "that v2".

From my - perhaps "limited" as it's only been to a few years - experience they aren't _all_ let go. With the rest, its easier to start fresh with lower paid devs than give raises to the older engineers who will begin to request being paid appropriately for their time and commitment.

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