It's really interesting what happened to you. Here's what I think about it.
There's a network of hidden, potential rivers of value flowing through society.
Companies are established in hopes of tapping into those rivers.
Once in a while some company, often by sheer chance alone will place itself in such beneficial spot of this river network that it can draw absolutely insane amount of money from there.
Form then on usual concerns about making mistakes, efficiency and doing reasonable things that are essential for survival of smaller companies no longer matter to that lucky company.
It can grow to huge proportions and spread, it can make dazzling amount of mistakes, have huge inefficiencies hiring useless or harmful people, doing unnecessary things, especially in the new places that the company grew into, but are sufficiently far away to the core that is tapping to this ample stream of cash.
This situation can last for many decades, until tectonic shifts of society fabric eventually alter the river network and the source starts to dry out, and this formerly lucky company now sees its money being taken by other lucky ones somewhere else.
Your job might have been highly beneficial to the endeavor it was a part of and removing it might have decrease efficiency of this endeavor greatly, but I strongly suspect that the whole endeavor was one of those side ones, remote from the core of the profit source of the whole corporation.
It's not that your job was useless, but probably everything two management levels up from you and everything below them was useless in the grand scheme of things for that corporation and maybe even actively harmful to their bottom line.
Corporations have to dissipate cash this way. They have to keep trying doing stupid inefficient things because that's their only chance of long term survival. They are desperately trying to discover new ample source of wealth, before the one that fuels them dries out and they have to accept all of the inefficiencies that come from this random search.
There's a network of hidden, potential rivers of value flowing through society.
Companies are established in hopes of tapping into those rivers.
Once in a while some company, often by sheer chance alone will place itself in such beneficial spot of this river network that it can draw absolutely insane amount of money from there.
Form then on usual concerns about making mistakes, efficiency and doing reasonable things that are essential for survival of smaller companies no longer matter to that lucky company.
It can grow to huge proportions and spread, it can make dazzling amount of mistakes, have huge inefficiencies hiring useless or harmful people, doing unnecessary things, especially in the new places that the company grew into, but are sufficiently far away to the core that is tapping to this ample stream of cash.
This situation can last for many decades, until tectonic shifts of society fabric eventually alter the river network and the source starts to dry out, and this formerly lucky company now sees its money being taken by other lucky ones somewhere else.
Your job might have been highly beneficial to the endeavor it was a part of and removing it might have decrease efficiency of this endeavor greatly, but I strongly suspect that the whole endeavor was one of those side ones, remote from the core of the profit source of the whole corporation.
It's not that your job was useless, but probably everything two management levels up from you and everything below them was useless in the grand scheme of things for that corporation and maybe even actively harmful to their bottom line.
Corporations have to dissipate cash this way. They have to keep trying doing stupid inefficient things because that's their only chance of long term survival. They are desperately trying to discover new ample source of wealth, before the one that fuels them dries out and they have to accept all of the inefficiencies that come from this random search.