That's not what he said, sounds more like anybody (reasonable) could have handled it alone, or for redundancy in a small team. Boring standardized battletested tech is the opposite of creating a walled garden, and he states (understandably) that this was the problem, for him and the product itself.
Very sad story, but seeing what lasagnacode over-and-underengineered-madnesses-at-the-same-timr are put up today, more than completely believable..
