Actually, it says "over-staffing in areas the organization was *not planning to prioritize going forward*.", but that's not a statement in a vacuum - this wouldn't be happening were it not for the current financial upheavals. Where do you read "they had around 1.3k-1.4k at the start of the year" ? AFAIK the starting point was about 1k.

Comparing a years-old fork of Firefox is ridiculous.

Indeed Mozilla Corporation and Foundation are much more than Firefox. But for Thunderbird from a financial and management standpoint Thunderbird is not particularly one of them. While the Foundation is supportive of Thunderbird, it is in a completely separate arm, is not part of Mozilla Corporation, receives none of the search and other Firefox revenue, and has it's own governance and developer group - ref: https://www.thunderbird.net/en...

The binary part of Lightning is being rewritten in JS and nearing a testing phase. Part of the goal is to address thie issues you mention.

Indeed - 100% accurate he is not. Flashlight and clock apps, fitness apps that use GPS, etc all suck battery