And that is also true, however, as a CEO you are paid for mostly 3 things:

• company steering
• company vision
• accountability

If a CEO fails the accountability part… Why is he even being paid? I had a discussion over the years about managers that don’t take responsibility if someone on their team messed up and throw under the bus whoever did the thing wrong. If I was in a position of power, I am sure I would fire the manager on the spot. It is literally part of your function to take responsibility in a collective level

You are not wrong, but if you read between the lines it says the message exactly as I mentioned, claiming “they did it”, like the CEO has nothing to do with it

This story reminds me of something else I have been pointing out for a very long time. It is not so uncommon to see layoffs after McKinsey drops by the building for a while (could also be bein or other consultancies in the same field), and more often than not, ceos like to say " they made me do it!!". So… To be clear, you do not have agency and you are not control whatsoever about these layoffs? Really? Sounds difficult to believe.

The problem is a bit more nuanced unfortunately. There has been open source projects that decided to close bug reports because there is just so many of them, and, a good portion of them are either duplicated or straight up not relevant (meaning, in a vacuum you could say there is a bug on place x, but looking at the code more broadly it doesn’t really apply). If the bug reports that came out were mostly good quality and relevant I would for sure be more positive of this.