They will just slowly lay off the metaverse teams and then we won't hear about it as much and then never again.

Doesn't Z still own a controlling amount of voting shares?

This is how it's acknowledged. A company does not communicate mistakes directly because that would reduce shareholder value.

User growth looking good:

https://steamcharts.com/app/438100#All

Never: Zuck owns the company (he owns a majority share), so he can't be forced out.

Zuckerberg cannot be fired by the board like, say, Elon Musk can be at Tesla. He is a 50%+ shareholder.