I like the post but it does somewhat miss the point of these comments when they’re made. It’s not usually someone saying they could rebuild the whole site / product / company in a weekend but rather challenging the value that everything beyond MVP is adding and all the staff that go into supporting everything beyond MVP.

Companies tend to vastly over-complicate things and to support that end up having ever growing teams to support the ever growing over-complexity and feature bloat.

I can’t tell you the number of times a team has said it takes so long to deliver something with 3x the number of engineers because they need more testing, backend and such but meanwhile the core product features that customers care about are delayed and not materializing. It’s not that these other things don’t matter but all the “other stuff” shouldn’t take priority over having a lean and mean product that works and people use.

Thus it’s less “why does this company have 100 engineers” and more “why does this company not just exist as a far simpler and leaner product?”