Yep. Definitely a smug and illiterate zillennial wrote this dreck:
“Sources also told Electrek about a software engineer that was also let go by Tesla last week. They had been working at Tesla for four years –…”
Another trend pushed by the youngsters is the use of the word, than, to say that one thing in a non-mathematical context is different from another. Than implies a quantifier that is missing in such sentences (more, etc.). “Duh, he’s more different than the other guy.”
Another yet... “She ran him over.” I ask, “She ran him over what? Oh, the moron is trying to say that she ran over him! She didn’t run him over the top of something else.”
On the word, that, to describe a person, many younger folks regard an animal as a who and a human being as a that.