Here's my perspective as an experienced developer

So it's illegal to discriminate based on backgrounds in hiring decisions, so what a lot of companies do to try to increase diversity is to just cast a wider net to a more diverse set of sources, rather than just sourcing from what's been working for them (e.g. Stanford). As a result companies will try to source from bootcamps as an effort to cast a wider net. But ultimately if the people don't meet the bar during a fair and calibrated interview process, nothing about their background can legally make up for that. One might argue that people from a bootcamp background have a ton of potential but lack the skills to qualify for entry level jobs at top companies, so some companies have pathways like apprenticeships and we see a lot of apprenticeships being heavily marketing to bootcamp grads (and other non-traditional sources). But yeah, DEI stuff is a gray area (as we've seen with some of the recent challenges to it in Florida and elsewhere) and with DEI employees being impacted heavily in layoffs, its' like a one two punch about these efforts being invested in right now.