The point of the firings was to break government. Now you see a giant failure, and you'll see a push to privatise the responsibility of weather forecasting and emergency warnings because 'government just isn't good at these things'.
SpaceX could get paid to put up weather satellites and sell forecasts to the government, shit like that.
It really should be a law that if a company does this, they should open source the code for both devices and servers and provide a way for people to reflash their devices.
Like, they're retiring a light switch that's 3 years old, I don't think anyone buys a light switch thinking they'll get a new one just 3 years later.