Actually, afaik they have allways been a small company in terms of
manpower with about a dozen or so employees. Face it, if MM would
actually technology wise work you wouldn't need a big staff.

This is also one of the problems imho ... because they have so few
employees they now find themselves completly swamped in their self
created forest of problems and they should have called in extra outside
hands ages ago, because the message "is being dilligently worked on"
has become quite stale considering I've been hearing it for over a year.