Having worked at Ford through the 1990s, these layoffs would be a welcome change.
I was in Marketing management and was frustrated every day with overarching bureaucracy. Between the CEO and lowest person, there might be 30 layers of management in some areas.
There were whole departments of people who were there to provide oversight to logo usage and marketing claims. They one time confided in me that they would only give a written “No, you can’t do that!” But NEVER a “Yes, that’s fine!” That was only verbal.
I think your reply maybe got cut off.
I think many American companies have a problem with too many layers. It is not an easy thing to fix once it takes root.