> staffed by about a dozen engineers That's part of the problem. You should be able to leave Reader unstaffed for as long as it isn't strategic (it's not as if

> staffed by about a dozen engineers That's part of the problem. You should be able to leave Reader unstaffed for as long as it isn't strategic (it's not as if borg has trouble keeping the tasks up), but in practice it will randomly fail because somebody in infra went for promo, so every project faces a choice: staff this indefinitely or kill it now.