Is anyone else feeling the 'salami slicing' strategy?

I’ve been at Google for six years now, and the atmosphere has shifted from a place of innovation to a place of constant, low-grade anxiety. It’s not even the massive, company-wide bloodbaths anymore. It’s this 'salami slicing' approach where they just shave off 50 people here, 100 people there, every single month. Today’s 52-person cut in the Seattle/Kirkland region is just the latest example. Management keeps talking about 'efficiency' and 'streamlining,' but when you look at the teams being gutted, it’s often the people maintaining the infrastructure that actually keeps the lights on. I’m seeing high-level ICs who have been here for a decade just getting handed the door because their specific sub-team isn't the 'top priority' for the quarter. It makes me wonder what the endgame is. Are we just waiting for enough attrition to naturally downsize the whole org, or are they planning to just outsource everything to cheaper regions? The 'Golden Age' talk is a cliché at this point, but seriously, the psychological toll of this 'slow death' by a thousand cuts is way worse than one big event. At least after a big event, people can mourn and move on. Now, we’re just sitting in our desks, waiting for our turn on the chopping block. How are you all coping with the uncertainty? I’m seriously considering jumping ship to a smaller startup just so I can stop feeling like a line item on a spreadsheet.