Salesforce to cut staff by 10%, close some offices

From a developer perspective, trying migrate a behemoth of a salesforce instance to their new tooling (Salesforce DX) in order to introduce version control and pipeline checks has been an absolutely horrible experience.

What does “taking responsibility” actually mean though? Is the CEO actually receiving any consequences?

> Another CEO taking the blame.

No, Marc Benioff is marketing the blame. If he were to take the blame, he'd relinquish his position as CEO.