I'm glad that worked out for you. In this other case, a company publicly announced that people were being fired for low performance.

Even if the colleagues of a given person knew/suspected that the person was a good worker, everyone else hiring at other companies doesn't, and they heard what the last employer said.

You don’t think that everyone in the industry who hires doesn’t know how these things work?

Absolutely no one who interviews or screen candidates think less of someone who gets laid off these days. There are tens of thousands who have been laid off in the industry since 2022.