You also hurt people in the process, and that's something that tends to fall out of the calculus.
At the end of the day, humans are pretty much the only thing that matters.
At the end of the day, humans are pretty much the only thing that matters.
(I'm a little less sympathetic in the case of engineers, who are an in-demand resource and so their opportunity costs are less, but the opportunity cost of your support people is higher and the recovery from the problems that that failed explosive growth phase cause is much worse.)