> That some business guys are amazed by the "lone wolf dev skills" might be explainable, but on HN we should know better. Yes, there are devs that get a ton done irrelevant of framework, but "getting things done" (in terms of business requirements) is only part of the story.

No, you shouldn't be surprised about this, it's natural that smaller dev teams are actually faster. This is Mythical Man-Month.