Isn't it as much a matter of what the community gets out of the spending that the Wikimedia foundation does? It seems like the problem is that the spending seem

Isn't it as much a matter of what the community gets out of the spending that the Wikimedia foundation does? It seems like the problem is that the spending seems divorced from the community of content creators, such that it's hard to see how the spending has made Wikipedia better. You have things like the comments system, Flow or Structured Discussions, which is a step back from the current system and yet still has money being spent on it.