But would it actually help. More employees means more communication and overhead. Lean organisations can move much quicker. Part of why valve can do what valve does is how lean it runs.

To summarize this conversation:

"Steam is bad because it has few employees."

"Steam can afford more employees."

"Adding more employees would make Steam worse."

Good talk.

No doubt they can, maybe they should. My point is that I'm more impressed with the results than many other companies that I know.