From what I've got during the years, DC simply doesn't really care, but wants to create his game in a rather relaxed environment. He's been some kind of animation team lead before he started SS and it seems like he doesn't want to go back to that. To me that seems to be one of the reasons why he keeps his team as it is.
This same discussion is going on for like 3 years and not much changed (apart from a few guys more he knows helping out occasinally) and it's very unlikely that it's going change in future, either.