Agreed, I really like Patrick - he is smart, humble, hardworking and trusting. But his kind and trusting nature is being aggressively exploited by some truly despicable people.
The best way to get promoted at stripe is just self-marketing and social manipulation. Good engineers are leaving meanwhile tecnical leadership is being replaced with designers and marketers. Internal performance metrics are heavily manipulated as well. Patrick has completely surrounded himself with extreme sycophants at this point - he has no idea what is actually going on in his company beyond curated metrics produced by manipulative sociopaths.