I did, and the writer has a clear and obvious bias against DEI. I personally am not in favor of much DEI stuff too, but I have worked at enough large bureaucracy type businesses that are all about it and it is 90% meaningless HR busy work. I don’t think they are “optimizing” for DEI, they are optimizing for maximum profits and that is the problem. DEI is something they are saying they are doing to appease cultural trends. They are clearly not optimizing for merit, even from before all this DEI stuff started. They are optimizing for extracting as much money as they can and that means cutting costs wherever they think will yield a higher profit margin. DEI shit is just a distraction, to appease those on the cultural lip-service left, and to inflame those on the right.