True, but I'm thinking if you can tell it was written by people who know what they're doing, odds are the company will continue to have people who know what they're doing.

In this situation at least it’s a 5 person company so the flux that they’re going to have to go through both with people and tech is gonna be pretty large. If you’re trying to gauge the future you could probably do the same / better job figuring that information out by having technical deep dives and researching their key employees and their past track record. Personally the source code is not the way I would want to gauge that information in the first place anyways, it’s a logistical nightmare and overkill.

Also to be more helpful it’s not unreasonable to ask to speak with current customers, seek proof of claims on stuff like SLAs and uptime, etc. There’s literally a million ways people do this in the real world without obtaining source code.