There will always be more work that could be done, certainly. What’s uncertain, however, is whether the work that remains to be done is valuable enough that it

There will always be more work that could be done, certainly. What’s uncertain, however, is whether the work that remains to be done is valuable enough that it makes sense to pay someone an engineer’s salary to do it. In your analogy, your competitors who keep their people could just as easily end up bankrupt.