It also shed some light on the inefficiency / inefficacy of most production groups .. a few persons with a real motive ended up doing more than many large companies.
Nothing new, it's obvious to many how much drag and cruft lies in the majority of businesses in the world.
I work in corporate software development, and the incredible inefficiencies astound me every day.
There's a lot of useless work mandated by law as well... I've spent years of my life developing useless anti-money laundering software because a lawmaker somewhere thought of a convoluted potential possible money laundering insurance fraud scheme (while ignoring the actually used ones).
The insurance company had upwards of TWO THOUSAND developers working... and the software was incredibly bloated and slow crap. It's mind boggling.
Nothing new, it's obvious to many how much drag and cruft lies in the majority of businesses in the world.