BioWare is laying off 50 people

I mean they probably aren't wrong. Any company facing enough financial difficulty to consider layoffs won't be helped by more costs getting added to their plate.

Bioware will almost certainly release DAD, that's really not what people are worried about. It's more their future after DAD that has people concerned. 

Even if Dreadwolf ships and makes good bank, I feel uncertain about BioWare's future after DA:D. Its development seems to have been nothing but a struggle. And now, after EA reshuffled its assets, I suspect BioWare has to start making profit regularly since they aren't being carried by EA Sports anymore. Dragon Age and Mass Effect with microtransactions? Live service? Unless DA:D does unbelievably well after it's released, I think BioWare will keep struggling. Of course I'd prefer to be wrong, but I fear I'm not.

I am serious. If it pays the bills and get the respect why not. And Epics Unreal Engine is not that uncommon in the movie industry.
Or again they could find jobs outside this whole tech industry.

Keep in mind that 

1. EA has now said quite openly and has followed through on recognizing that Single Player games has a niche in their overall portfolio and does open a market to them from the success of Jedi Fallen Order and presumably Jedi Survivor. Now this brings up its own set of issues because the lack of live service elements in such games don't make them too profitable long term, and thus the EA money counters/ shareholders could look at them as important...but not as financially viable as say a full on MP/ LS title like Madden. This could give BioWare the lisence to make 'smaller' games again but that could also easily have been the motivation behind these layoffs 'well if you are going to be making smaller games then you are going to have to have a smaller staff because it makes no sense to have a large staff for a smaller game'. And in my experience big mega corps tend to overcompensate when it comes to these sorts of things. Plus without DLC/ other live service elements included then we will see the expectation for a faster turn around. WHich is probably a good thing for us the consumer if we care about getting brand new games, but could be bad on the dev side. 

2. While we have yet to see a Dragon Age/ Mass Effect live service game, and while BioWare's attempts at one have been mixed if not really struggled, we have seen them have some success with having live service elements within their mostly SP games. While the industry could be backing off of such things we have seen ME 3 MP with microtransactions and fairly regular updates, we have seen every single BioWare game get DLC since ME 1...with the exception of Andromeda. While such things tend to have mixed feelings within the gaming community from what I've seen the BioWare DLCs are generally some of my favorite, and look fairly well regarded with people being shocked around here that Andromeda did not get one. We don't know about any DLC plans with Dreadwolf but it would certainly be possible that any new shuffling of EA management could see them take another swing at a seperate MP mode or DLC to help them stay profitable in the future. 

3. Much more pie int he sky but Darah's ask him anything did have an interesting conversation when it came to mobile games. Not sure EA will go for it and it does have its own issues but I think it could be a good idea for EA to have a smaller studio either make a mobile game or a smaller live service type Dragon Age game as a way of potentially being a way for the IP, and maybe BioWare itself, to make money in the interim between Dreadwolf and hopefully the next ME. Now such a company may not exist with the time and resources to do such a game and EA, given what is happenign with EA sports, might not find it kosher to have Bio supported in such a way...but the idea is an interesting one.

Same team now probably. Both Edmonton. For example, there's only maybe 1 writer in Bioware remaining that has worked on a ME title (check the ME3 or Andromeda credits.) After DA the devs will likely just shift over and start full production on ME5 (now that they can't dilly dally for 10 years using SWTOR money).

While the temptation certainly exists to have opinion skew towards the negative...and have news like this just make their prospects look bleak, for obvious reasons...I think there is a ring of truth to this. Afterall it seems like the devs are aware on some level of the commentary surrounding their game, whether or not because they are professionals so they know what to expect, or they actually have read enough of it to know...but a lot of the commentary on X and the general interwebz have remained almost universally reassuring/ good. Like they know how this news has to look so they are all talking about how good the game has been going, at least to this point. Of course as I've speculated this also comes with its own issues but it is still quite posible this is true...and the leaks also have doubled down on this. 

As far as legacy, well a legacy can leak out for years. Whatever the issues have been and whoever is responsible it is clear that someone in BioWare's or EAs management team from years past stunk on ice and made horrible decision after horrible decision. The company may never recover from it, but as much as people love their fall stories, redemption stories are even better.