I think that hiring someone to write the ICO whitepaper may not be worse, yes definitely the ICO projects must be fully understand and known by the project owner or the team, but I have realized that sometimes people that they are very good at development might not be good at doing expressing ideas by word, while a person helping your team to review once more may can also return you some possible problems and reasonable feedbacks.
That is why humankind invented the distribution of labour.

So yes the super great tech guy developing the amazing application might indeed not be the best person to write the company communication and communicate with investors.