Agreed. I'd go further and say I would expect many here have successfully completed similarly complex projects single-handedly with a lot less time and money.

As I grow older, I'm increasingly starting to believe that many of the advancements in sophistication of software are actually somehow making it much less possible to successfully implement relatively complex solutions on budget - I am making this comparison to the relatively short era where platforms like PowerBuilder/Delphi/MSAccess were popular. If you mention on of those products now for literally anything, you'll be met with howls of laughter, but for the life of me I don't understand. Meanwhile, spending $2 million on a project that is laughably short on functionality and seems to take weeks to make the smallest of changes is considered (with grave seriousness and 100% infallible confidence) to be perfectly proper.