The last chance Symantec had to do the right thing for its employees and customers was having a leader such as Steve Bennett. Steve had the vision of trying to improve all of the business. This did not mesh with the vision of the Board, led by MB, who wanted to cut everything out, sell off what can be, and act without caring for Symantec's workforce and customers. The new marketing plan's numbers are inflated by the benefit structure, but does not provide any more service to customers than previously. The last two years has not seen any development in any software outside of Threat Protection. Threat Protection will be the determining factor if Symantec still will be a company in the next 5 years. If you have any other Symantec owned product, no new development outside of keeping current with OS support will be introduced.
With Veritas doing further cutting after the split, it is easy to see what is the plan for the rest of the Symantec software portfolio. Problem is, if you keep cutting people that know the legacy history, you run into a situation that there will be no one available to support the legacy systems. And those systems are not to replaced in the foreseeable future.