In this particular case it is warranted. If they were doing a good job they wouldn't now be out of it. Let's not pretend like Bioware was putting out good games lately.
You can recognize the decline of the organization and still have empathy for the individuals within it. Many, many of the people working there go into work every day and do their absolute best, without being able to decide what they actually work on or what direction the product takes, because those decisions are made several levels above them. At most companies, there's no real mechanism for them to exert influence in the other direction.
Honestly, the overwhelming majority of people in this thread, if they had chosen to become a game dev, would be far closer to those people being fired today, than they would be to the people who produced all those classics of yesteryear.
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u/pirate135246 i9-10900kf | RTX 3080 ti 8h ago
It’s not the same people that made any of their great games. Good riddance to the slop they had become.