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You seem to be confusing knowledge and skill.

Twitter could be packed with extremely skillful senior engineers who don't understand the product well enough to predict complex outcomes of planned changes.

>>Baseba+(OP)
Likewise you can have a "poor quality" 1x employee who has knowledge of how everything within the stack is glued together; where there is chewingum and where there are steel beams.

They are potentially more vauable than the 100x engineer who has intimate knowledge of how googles shipping container datacentres work.