I'm just never quite sure the gain in productivity and happy developers outweighs the cost of shipping a software product that requires hardware that costs 4-di

I'm just never quite sure the gain in productivity and happy developers outweighs the cost of shipping a software product that requires hardware that costs 4-digit US$ figures to run smoothly (which seems to be the case for most everything produced by startups nowadays). I for my part would prefer if, for instance, the Slack developers were confined to machines on which their current product runs as badly as it does on mine, even if they feel so miserable and underappreciated as a consequence that their uplifting have-a-nice-day loading messages get replaced by passive-aggressive snark or something.