ETA - Speaking of skill and money, sometimes $11.5M can't buy you a good experiment.
Amen. Sometimes, a barrel of money becomes an impediment. That can be true of product development. Too much money gives the designers too many options, and too many nifty toys to try out. That is why programs in the 1970s for computers with only 16 KB of RAM were sometimes elegant, fast and reliable compared to today's bloat-ware.
Still, I would rather have too many resources than not enough.