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That's how you go from sustainable to unsustainable due to chasing constant exponential growth then eventual enshitification that hits consumers to try to recoup all the lost money.
You're describing the shitty business models of publicly traded companies that hire thousands then lay off thousands and keep trying to do whatever they can to raise stock prices due to not targetting a sustainable stable company for the longterm but quarter by quarter profit targets.
That steam has been more conservative with hiring is probably why they've been able to have the resources to go into hardware even if it flops unlike EA, Ubisoft, and Epic despite having way more employees.