Osiris parent
How did you reach the conclusion that the company has too many employees from that one sentence?
Two lines of reasoning.
First: A lot of time was spent building consensus.
No individual felt they had unilateral power to remove the calculator. Instead the behavior was to seek approval. That's probably because of unclear ownership, which often happens because of too many people.
Second: Too many cooks in the kitchen.
At any stage of a company there's a limited amount of important work. Work that is mission critical and provides outsized value to the company.
When people feel their own work is not important they seek other work that appears to be important. So, you get the behavior of a lot of opinions on a pricing calculator.
The company I work for has cut staff by 60%, and workload has not decreased. This is standard corporate shittery, however my point here is that we still have the issue of unclear ownership even on basically skeleton staff. It's not a question of individual ownership, it's about what team owns it in my case.