Comment by AugustoCAS

The answer to your scenario is `yes` with a high probability (taken from my magician's hat), but only in the short term.

People like the one described in the article prepare a pipeline of good engineers, who also have experience in the domain and in the organization.

So if one cares about fast delivery, get a good number of sr engineers who work on their own thing, share little and are not encumbered by each other. If a company needs to deliver urgently this works, but is an (expensive, short term) option.