I mean the first guy who did it on the creativity, maybe the first 10, but nowadays that just means you can't think of anything else to boost your profile.

>> and they also understand the js package ecosystem as well.

You mean how broken it is, and how to take advantage of it? Depending on your business they could fit in really well.

Is this "regulatory arbitrage?"

That's one way to look at it, the other is that they will game whatever incentives you put in place at your company to your detriment.

My friend, you just described the strategy of almost every modern American corporation, except you forgot stock buy backs.

That's great hire them, then it will have served it's purpose. They can repackage all their trivial number related stuff up into one generally useful module, deprecate the old trivial ones and everybody can get back to work (with a smaller number of dependencies).