It reminds me when Elon took over twitter and made a comment to the effect of "we need to rethink the entire tech stack from the ground up". Someone asked Elon what was wrong with the tech stack, and he called them a jackass.
Before the buyout (2021), twitter made $5.1 billion in ad revenue ($6.22 billion inflation-adjusted).
In 2025, it made about $2 billion.
So Twitter is now about 1/3rd of what it was (revenue wise) when purchased.
What do you mean? My experience has always been that the more cooks there are in the kitchen, the messier the codebase is. Has yours been different?
But that to clean up a codebase requires even more people.
So, at first blush, it looks like "more people = more problems," but if you actually give yourself some breathing room, the code can get cleaner with effort.