its certainly a bad look. 45% layoffs is pretty extreme. Big moves are important in drastic times so its understandable for the long term development of splinterlands, but.... man.... nearly half the squad? How did they get so overinflated at the same time as having so much success lately? I guess thats just a painful reality to bear. The community has been chucking money at this team for the last couple of months at an exasperating rate and the phrase 'what bear market?' has been banded about a lot as we see incredibly fast sellouts of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of product in minutes... surely splinterlands is closer to bear-proof than a lot of projects right now? And like you jongo, im still on the optimistic side. I believe in this team, and this project and this community, and the recent successes go a long way to support our bid for survival....but again.....45% is such a huge blow. Psychologically, 30% would have felt a lot less damaging. Obviously a business has to make cuts in an extended bear market.... but SURELY we've been raising enough money to avoid such an epic cull? What about the money in the DAO? This would have been an AMAZING time to give the community a chance to steer the ship a bit...maybe its not too late....you can imagine the headlines already, splinterlands community fires 30% of staff! haha. How much more revolutionary people power do you need? We should be using these moments to prove that splinterlands is truly leading the way in web3 governance.