That company sounds like a clusterfuck. Good luck attracting good talent with such dysfunctional leadership.
Might by time for another employee buyout? https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/17/24272867/automattic-empl...
Eh, it's not a seller's market anymore.
A lot of WordPress enterprise users will be upset after finding out that after paying $20-100k a month, Wordpress actually poaches their employees. Just inspect a Wordpress enterprise site's response to certain endpoints using cURL or Postman, it will actually tell you to apply for Automattic. I have been meaning to write about this for a very long time.