"and I agree that there was a fair bit of it..." This casual aside is really doing alot of heavy lifting here and doesnt really acknowledge the scale of the problem. Dismissing it as "muddled bureacracy" doesnt even come close.

After 4 years of the previous administration, the American people voted in the most disruptive change agent in US political history. And they did this with full knowledge of how he operates from his previous 4 years in the presidency.

There is a counter-revolution happening right now and there is a popular mandate for this. And this means a few people are going to lose their job.

I dont have any numbers for this but its probably likely that just as many, if not more, conservatives lost their jobs under the previous administration. (DEI provides a wonderful camouflage for political cleansing at scale).