High quality developers vs. cost-optimised commodity developers

We are unashamedly developer centered. We love working in well crafted codebases written by skillful developers who take pride in their craft and their code - these codebases are easy to extend and debug. Conversely we have experienced the drag of working in poorly written codebases created by commodity developers. Commodity developers may be cheaper per day, but they take many times longer to write anything so their overall cost is higher, but also the code they write is a drag on all future developers who need to work on that codebase. Cheap commodity developers are a false economy.