It would be very easy to accumulate a lot of technical debt (hacked up code) very quickly. Also, it would be frustrating for developers being paid performance

It would be very easy to accumulate a lot of technical debt (hacked up code) very quickly. Also, it would be frustrating for developers being paid performance pay but not totally in control of their environment. Bitter infighting might occur about language and technology choices, server designs, even dev machine quality or working hours. However, I do like the idea of proposing a general goal and asking developers to come up with their own ways to meet those goals.