Ignoring the reality that the higher fee has only been in play for four months; have you considered that there are likely H1-B employees in the 16,000 that Amazon laid off?

A large portion of employees on immigration visas were offered the ability to keep their job if they transferred to Amazon's India offices assuming a team was co-located there as well.

The Indian government has been encouraging [0] the H1B rule change as well as it helps kick off a reverse brain drain [1] right as India was launching it's own version of the Thousand Talents [2] program.

[0] - https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/us-loss-will-be-indi...

[1] - https://vrfbharat.org/how-will-the-h1-b-visa-restriction-ena...

[2] - https://theprint.in/india/education/reversing-brain-drain-mo...