I just don't get how people don't understand that you need money to make games and games need to make you money to continue making games. Embracer can't just keep funding Volition projects with $100-$200M in hope that one of those will be success. Deep Silver tried with Agents of Mayhem, then got bought by embracer, then they tried to go back to bigger and popular IP and made Saint's Row that failed again. And that can't be put only on suits. Saint's Row didn't just have bugs and performance issues, it had issues with fundamental design of the game, you can't put all of that on suits. As much as it sucks and hurts at some point you need to put things down, look at the what you did up to that point and if it sucks you need to be honest with yourself and accept that. In case of Saint's Row many of the game design sucked. Game got delayed multiple times and even after that got released in bad state. And even after year of pathing and new content things didn't change that much.
After all that what was Embracer supposed to do? They could either fire half of the studio and focus on smaller project that they honestly don't need (they need AAA releases), they could sell studio but who would buy studio that in last 10 years released one mediocre addon and 2 AAA games that bombed, convert studio to support studio but they were in kinda expensive area so maintaining it would be expensive and they want to cut costs. It sucks for the devs that studio got shut down and they got laid off, but unfortunately money doesn't grow on trees and makes no financial sense to keep spending money on high risk things that Volition became in past 10 years.
