> There's no hint of laying off all the staff here though. Now it sounds like they "were" excited to lay off people to maximize profits.

What? Just because a statement says "we're excited to do X" doesn't mean they're not also planning to do A, B, C, Y and Z.

I'm not defending the layoff. It just seems weird to interpret the statement itself as somehow being misleading about a subject that it literally didn't mention.