The flip side of this is all the small, 3.5-dev shops that are fast and flexible—just so they can slam hard into a wall and tie themselves into permanent knots.

The flip side of this is all the small, 3.5-dev shops that are fast and flexible—just so they can slam hard into a wall and tie themselves into permanent knots. While many of the inefficiencies of larger companies are, indeed, highly wasteful, it is also true that some of those inefficiencies are to increase resilience. Looking around and seeing lots of fast, flexible small companies is, at least in part, survivorship bias.