The problem with the boomers who are left at HPE is that they have floated to the top of the septic tank with their survival skills which have nothing to do with the job and everything to do with keeping a low profile and getting as little as possible done (think of Wally in Dilbert cartoons). For a lot of the rest of us boomers we've been able to take the extensive skills we developed at HP to other places and are having great success. So while I agree with your analysis of the remaining boomers one has to wonder why the grossly incompetent management has let that happen. Starting with Carly it's been a downhill trip to irrelevancy. Some of us boomers wanted the company to get into information appliances (smartphones) before Apple (how many billions have they made from that). When Carly killed that to buy Compaq the exit migration began. It takes quite a long time to kill a company that was as great as HP in 2000 but that's now all but done except for a few death rattles.
When the phrase "your program is critical to the future of the company" became the indication that it was time to look for a job it was pretty much all over. The HP Cloud was a good example of the best that they can do these days ..... sad.
One has to wonder why anyone left would whine about it and not just move on.