This is such an engineer's perspective. The point is, it is not just the number of connections, but the type of connection: diversity will be removed, since you

This is such an engineer's perspective. The point is, it is not just the number of connections, but the type of connection: diversity will be removed, since you only really need certain skillsets. The people with design skills and other types of skills will be removed. This numerical accounting perspective so widespread with engineers and computer scientists is the sort of reasoning that is bringing us to disaster.