Pretty much. A smart person can pick up a tool. A person already holding the tool may or may not be able to use it well. The converse, that smaller teams nee

Pretty much. A smart person can pick up a tool. A person already holding the tool may or may not be able to use it well. The converse, that smaller teams need existing knowledge, is true too. I remember two specific instances where my team hired domain experts. (3D graphics in the 1980s and DSP in the '90s) In both cases, the new knowledge disseminated rapidly, simply because the experts helped the rest of us understand what to study.