studios can be bad aswell, when the man in the charge has no clue what he is doing... the men at charge in these studios were EA executives...
EA has a very high expectation of its studio's, its not just, are you making a profit, it's more are you making a large enough profit.
Regardless, if you have a retard running your studio, why, oh why are you sticking around... Trust me when I say there are enough high's, low's, and politics at good studio's, what you describe is a hell hole ran by a retard and I would get out. Realistically the studio's that seem to be shutting are most certainly the weaker EA studio's within the group, the culture within those studio's also likely justify's this also.
Also, I don't think you've actually read my post, I reiterate, bad studio's deserve to die.