I'll admit to feeling a bit lost trying to follow the argument through the middle, but I thought the final paragraph was a most excellent conclusion, particularly:

>​ [The equity language guides] belong to a fractured culture in which symbolic gestures are preferable to concrete actions, argument is no longer desirable, each viewpoint has its own impenetrable dialect, and only the most fluent insiders possess the power to say what is real.

Which leads me to wonder: How does one resolve differences and/or generate solutions when different parties don't speak the same language?

There might be some over-analysis here.

According to other articles Microsoft hired 50000 people during the pandemic, versus the 10000 being terminated. Now I don't know how many of the 50000 were replacements as opposed to new positions, but even the article acknowledges that there has been lots of hiring and this might just be a correction: "...after profligate pandemic hiring sprees..."

Second-hand story from someone who I believe was on the IE team many moons ago: the IE team called it 'one handed browsing mode'.