She's not arguing to change the outcome, she's arguing to call out the hypocrisy/bullshit. In some sense it's pointless, yes; in some other sense, you deserve an argument if you don't deal straightly with the person you're laying off.
True - and instead of admitting that, they hemhaw about how her performance was bad.
Agree the appeal to emotion isn't really helping, but on balance it's Cloudflare that looks bad here.
They talk about the performance of her and her peers.
In any case, it’s not even a conversation. It’s a notice