2. As company grows, it may well be that a piece of software being used by by less than 5 people at the company, but require an own developer team to continue a

2. As company grows, it may well be that a piece of software being used by by less than 5 people at the company, but require an own developer team to continue actively support it. I recognize the scenario you’re warning against here — but worth being careful about conflating user count with value produced. Some really valuable tools have small numbers of users, e.g. tools for curating some internal dataset. Sometimes the number of users is small only because the tool is handling most of the drudgery.