BioWare is laying off 50 people

Writers, programmers and devs who aren't department leads aren't the ones who decides how things are done. They can give suggestions but looking at things, they were probably ignored most of the time.

It's not a writer who decided to hide staff on the SWTOR team while they actually worked on other games to siphon SWTOR budget to other games so EA didn't realize those other games were busting their budget. It was someone high into BioWare power structure.

EA probably realized something was wrong when SWTOR 10th anniversary with lots of stuff planned over the year didn't really happen despite the staff and budget booked for it. Hence, putting an EA guy as general manager of the studio and then moving SWTOR to Broadsword, which caused BioWare Edmonton budgeting to fall apart which lead to cutting heads (among the most expensive since it's purely finances).

Now specifics and context will vary from case to case and the long term effects of this case are probably not going to see the consequences of this particular decision for a long time to come. But the basics of the logic is still rather sound. Teams can still be too large and unwieldy. Too bloated. Too many indians and not enough chiefs as well as the vice versa. So large where effective decision making is made a lot more complicated and thus things get harder to do, harder to communicate these decisions through an entire team and then get feedback. Hell now that I'm thinking about it I think Mark made a video which at least touched on this subject. So a larger team can be just as much of a problem for these companies as having a small team, and corporate speak or no, a smaller team can be more responsive, reactive, and creative, as a larger one. 
I've never really thought that this overly melodramatic argument is especially effective or helpful to any debate. 

BioWare still exists and they will continue to do so for the forseable future. Indeed since the 'corporate speak' has reaffirmed their commitment to both Dragon Age and Mass Effect moving forward then this still means they have years still. As for the team there have been several people which have been there for years and reprsent the 'old guard'. Fewer and fewer, sure, but BioWare still has people in key leadership positions which have been with the company as long as Mary Kirby. Leadership which will continue to ensure some continuity as they train the next generation, hopefully, of BioWare devs and continue to ensure the companies standars remain. 

Which while it does suck for the specific people involved we were going to lose Mary Kirby eventually. People retire and people move on from companies all the time or are laid off. Mary Kirby isn't BioWare, BioWare is BioWare and given how much I enjoyed Andromeda and even Anthem having some BioWare staples in it I'm not that concerned by the loss of any one dev. At least not yet. Though a lot will depend on how much these people will be able to pass onto the next generation.

All three also are missing stuff, whether that be unlocking Stasis in LOTSB ME2, or melee combos entirely in ME3.