[prng2021]

“You never needed 1000s of engineers to build software anyway”

What is the point of even mentioning this? We live in reality. In reality, there are countless companies with thousands of engineers making each piece of software. Outside of reality, yes you can talk about a million hypothetical situations. Cherry picking rare examples like Winamp does nothing but provide an example of an exception, which yes, also exists in the real world.

[caminante]

IMHO, it's flamebait. Your quoted text is provably false -- e.g., MSFT Windows, AWS, etc. and appeals to idealism of lean project teams.