Because if you could save money on hiring, you would. When you are in survival mode (not saying anything about the company referenced, just startups in general) you tend to get fast and loose with the truth. There's always a reason to justify what you did last week because "if we didn't do $AWFUL_THING everybody would have been fired."
I think if you live in this headspace long enough you begin to devalue / depersonalize the "cogs" in the machine you are constructing.
Being ramen profitable used to be a thing that was done because it was a necessity for survival and getting started. It became fashionable at some point as opposed to something done out of necessity. The idea of cost cutting everything "unnecessary" is so attractive to people who are not involved in actually DOING things. It's impossible for them to resist the urge given sufficient time and profit.
If they were involved with actual work, their minds would be occupied with something useful instead of inventing ways to justify their value.
The whole "spamming HN for hires" behavior to me is like orca whales swimming around with dead fish on their heads. Cheapness as a fad. Don't try to understand it.
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