That's not really a meaningful comparison, either. If you assume every engineer makes ~300K at Apple, perhaps a more meaningful comparison is "Apple loses ~7K engineers for 1 year", which seems a bit more than a slap on the wrist as you are suggesting.
Don't worry. They can replace those lost engineers with AI ;)
Assuming it's like every other large business, that's an optimization.
Or 26 CEOs for 1 year. (Tim Cook earned ~$75M for 2024).
except that the money doesn't go only to the engineers.