Surely you're joking right? Create a billion dollar company where it snows four months out of the year? Yes and a recent example rhymes with coupon;<).
The problem is not that great developers are expensive, it's that they're expensive and very rare.
It is all about the unconscious mastery.
I'll use the chess analogy, it is very hard to be a top class player, if every time you ponder the position you have to think about how the horsey moves.
There is no such thing as a company paying true market rate, with acceptable working conditions and terms, who cannot find talent. The problem is there are many companies that are in denial about the realities of the competitive market.
All this silly nonsense about only hiring people who started programming at age 8 is just a distraction to avoid contending with the real issues here.