I had a relative who spent years as a systems integration engineer at Boeing. This was his job basically.

As labor is a driving cost, wouldn't that almost double the price? They are already uncompetitive in price with spaceX right? I'm not suggesting that profits be valued over lives, but they are clearly doing something wrong beyond having too few employees.

Stock market goes up when we get rid of more employees, that's all that matters...

Until the moment it doesn't.

Maybe you are right. Being a public company is a net negative for space.

But by that time, the management whose quarterly or yearly bonuses drove the decision have moved on to bring their skills at increasing stock value to some other company (or retired).

I am pretty sure you should have marked this comment /s.

The Mythical Man Month surely applies.

It surely does not.

The Mythical Man Month applies when you task more people to work on the same job with the expectation of faster results.

He is proposing to task more people to work on different jobs with the expectation of higher quality results.

We need another team to determine when the Mythical Man Month applies or not

/s

Can I be on the team that ignores the result?

Yes. Please put together 100 people to finish the 100 dev-month project next month.

I think we're on that team by default.