This doesn’t really track as an explanation. Why couldn’t you restructure teams or retrain people instead of firing them? If it was an internal organizational conflict as you say, it seems rash and strategically unsound to let good people go instead of refactoring the internal conflict in a way that deploys those people in other roles, or at least some of them.

While I don’t think there is anything deceptive or mean-spirited about your comment, it just doesn’t add up, and comes off a bit like the same old corporate verbal shuffling.

Nothing obligates you to comment or speak out on this. Why do so here in this forum if this is all there is to say?