Did riot just fired 530 employees for real?

530 brilliant employees, graphic designers, and storytellers like Graham McNeill or Ian St Martin, actually got fired because... actually because of what? Riot Forge is closed, and LoR is fucked, which next departments will get closed, maybe TFT? Which next employees will be fired?

Will Shyvana's rework be late because of firing Riot Raptor? Who worked with Rell rework or Naafiri? Will Riot MMO be even released? Will Darkin's Lore be updated when Graham McNeill got fired? Will we get more cinematics like the brink of infinity? Why Riot employees didn't knew about anything, and just got message that they are fired?

And in my opinion, the most important question is, What should we do, as players, to not get fucked because of Tencent?