I work at a large public tech company with a bland product and sure you could lay off 90% of engineering and coast with no feature development for a good while (probably). The problem is when you want to staff back up, getting that 90% back won’t happen overnight and it’ll take years to get that efficiency back up. We paused hiring for just a couple months in my org once, we had something like 5% attrition during that time and it took 3x as long to get the hiring pipeline back up and it’ll take at least a year to get those people to be useful. Always Be Hiring.