Firing HR and all your problems disappearing is like removing the smoke alarm because the noise was bothering you.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/bolt-ceo-ryan-breslow-cut-hr-department-causing-problems-fintech-startup-turn-around/
Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’: 

Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow says a culture of “entitlement” forced a sweeping reset—including cutting the HR team, he says, which was “creating problems that didn’t exist.”

Fortune

@amydiehl

Hmmm, "a lot of more junior people."

Sounds like this was a way to get a less costly workforce that is more likely to tolerate being exploited and abused.