I understand what you are saying but I'm old fashioned (or naive) enough to think that entertainment companies are supposed to be about art (and I'm using the word in an admittedly hand-wavy sort of way) and not about finding cheap money and/or growing headcount.

It already reads wrong if throwing money at my "competitors" somehow gives them some kind of advantage over me. That sounds factory-like (but then I am also coming to believe that what others call "AAA" games may not be the same kind of thing that drew me into gaming).