Josh D’Amaro didn’t waste time. Barely settled into Disney’s CEO chair after succeeding Bob Iger in February, he greenlit cuts that sliced 1,000 positions across the entertainment empire. The layoffs hit hard this week, targeting marketing—freshly reorganized in January—along with studios, television operations, ESPN, products and technology, and corporate functions. D’Amaro laid it out in an email to staff: the company must adapt to changing economic winds, including a slumping TV sector, box-office woes, and fierce rivalry. “Given the fast-moving pace of our industries, this requires us to constantly assess how to foster a more agile and technologically-enabled workforce to meet tomorrow’s needs,” he wrote, per Yahoo Finance . Marvel took a brutal blow. Roughly 8% of its staff vanished—film and TV production, comics, franchise teams, finance, legal, all trimmed. Visual development? Down to a skeleton crew. One long-timer, David Gabriel, who steered Marvel Comics for two decades, got the boot.…