> Zuck made this pretty clear in a previous brief and talked about getting rid of the number of middle managers.

Google did an experiment long ago, trying to get rid of managers. It was a total disaster/failure[1]. Seems BigTech wants to re-discover this the hard way themselves.

1: https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/google-tried-to-prove-manage...

(there are many links describing this experiment, picked a random one)