[ben509]

I think it's more of a challenge when you have someone who is more skilled as a subject matter expert than as a programmer, which may be the case when you're the tech person or even founder of a small business.

That person may not be doing good unit testing, they might not use the best tools, and find that supporting different configurations may require a lot more manual work rather than maintaining some carefully crafted #ifdefs.

And maybe one person could do it, but one salary they can't justify based on the demand may as well be 100 programmers.