Law is very resilient. However, there’s another issue at play here as well: a lot of these particularly large companies have been captured by DEI types, much in the way that regulatory bodies can be captured. The ideology goes deep, all the way through middle management, which is to say even if the top dogs of that company decide they want to do more merit-based hiring/promotions, it won’t actually pan out that way. This ideology is also openly subversive, so even if they pretend to engage in merit-based hiring/promotions, they’re likely going to be papering whitey and issuing fake praise for their DEI pets. It isn’t middle management’s money they’re fucking with, and KPIs can often be fabricated or finagled. I know a couple people in HR, and they’re invested in the DEI shit in a way their bosses likely don’t even partly comprehend, so they’re going to put their thumb on the scale for a long time. The affirmative action cases for university admissions have sent these people into a scramble. They went from putting their thumb on the scale, like I just said, to hard refusing to hire white men. It’s like a last hurrah for DEI, in their mind, so they have to get in all the rigging they can as fast as they can.
It’s going to be a long struggle to fix this. Like decades, literally.