Editors update, an hour later:

“Wait… I’m just realizing that’s the count of Steam Verified games in my personal library. We are waiting to hear back if any of the 15 games I have not purchased on Steam impact this total.”

My money is on: replace it with some half-assed AI “enhanced” prototype.

Yeah. I suspect they let him know he could have honest to goodness consequences for his actions.

but they’ll stay and work in a half ass way since it’s better than unemployment and cobra.

Yep. Or they’ll stay and do no work at all and count on it taking a long while for anyone to even notice.

it certainly isn’t competent management they’re working for.

If Word had WordPerfect’s Alt+F3, I probably would have never stopped using Word. So I guess it’s for the best.