Do I have a skewed mindset around this? Every expense is a required expense. Every expense is looked at to be minimized. They're going to run with the fewest

Do I have a skewed mindset around this? Every expense is a required expense. Every expense is looked at to be minimized. They're going to run with the fewest, cheapest developers as they think they can get away with to deliver what they want to deliver on the schedule they want to deliver it. It doesn't always work like that, over time bloat accumulates leading to restructuring/layoffs. This is so standard that exceptions are notable (20% time, skunkworks, etc...)