[phektus]

> Admittedly, I have no clue if the management realises that ! Well, that's the key thing in many places: it's management that decides whether to hire and how much to offer, not you :)

The first instinct would be to put 'resources' that costs little into a project, and that usually means people with less experience that requires less pay and are easier to drag around. Imagine the difficulty they will be having trying to grok your line of reasoning for respecting and going after these older devs.