They were meeting their goals a decade ago with one part-time tech and a budget only 3% of what it is today. How has exponential growth in revenue and spending

They were meeting their goals a decade ago with one part-time tech and a budget only 3% of what it is today. How has exponential growth in revenue and spending improved or sped up goal-meeting? It's kept a lot of wikipedians employed building features no one wants (or outright rejects), but it hasn't furthered the goal of collecting the world's knowledge, which is still almost entirely driven by the entirely voluntary editorial staff using the same tools they had a decade ago.