Yes. This was a weird case and I suspect that there was some internal politicking to enable Munich as the location to rebuild the team. I don't have any inside baseball on this, but pretty much every other case of "blow up the team and rebuild it elsewhere" I've seen in the past three years has been a move to a much lower cost region (India, Mexico, and Poland are big ones). The languages group has a bunch of people in Munich and several leaders there, which I suspect played a role in getting the team to be built in a mid cost region rather than a low cost region.

Still a mess and my understanding is that the AI portions of the company were none too happy given that the bulk of their development is done in python.