I think people on both sides of this debate are being obtuse. As we've seen from the rounds and rounds of layoffs over the last 18 months, most big companies we

I think people on both sides of this debate are being obtuse. As we've seen from the rounds and rounds of layoffs over the last 18 months, most big companies were (probably) bigger than they needed to be to function (TBD on X). However it's silly to point to something like Instagram and think "they built something great with 12 ppl, what are all these other thousands of people even doing?" An app used by 1B+ people is more than 10X more complicated than an app that is used by 100M people.