But thats politics. Look at every railway, roadway, power station - always supported or opposed by various factions. We think it’s actually healthy for our society, so why is it bad on the scale of companies - some of whom have larger GDP than some countries

Having political discussions out in the open is - I hold as an axiom - a positive on balance.

This who are “upset” about things - well they are adults in a political society - they can understand the issues. Do they feel exposed / vulnerable ? Maybe there is a political solution to thinking you have two weeks notice and that’s all the protection

I think it’s worth having decisions openly debated - otherwise we are blessing an elite and frankly hoping they will get it right.

The survival rate of companies suggests they might not be

I would also suggest that politics is how FOSS works - the only reason Linus was the "CEO" of the kernel was because people voted him in by sending him patches. And kept sending them. There was nothing preventing someone else being voted in except the politics of it all...

I would suggest that the first step in a concrete plan (see below) is that every line manager becomes the place where the next line manager does a git pull from.

Eventually you want to release code, the actual CEO needs to git pull and sign off.