After hiring all these people, has even more value been delivered to customers? If you can point to all the new features delivered by dev, supported by ops, an

After hiring all these people, has even more value been delivered to customers? If you can point to all the new features delivered by dev, supported by ops, and analyzed by data science... and you can say that these features brought in new business and invigorated old business, then yes all the negatives are worth it. However if you can't, then it's all dead weight and standards need to be enforced, otherwise you are paying your employees to make your code worse. I would say this happens all the time at big corps, but if it happens at a 50 person startup then it will be a big risk factor.