It also depends a lot on the company's strategy. If you are building a complex product then a small, highly qualified team makes sense. If your product is basic

It also depends a lot on the company's strategy. If you are building a complex product then a small, highly qualified team makes sense. If your product is basic and requires a lot of customer success, you might want to hire junior devs or non-devs to do basic work (thus growing your team, but saving the senior dev time for more complex tasks).