3) Anonymint was wrong with that statement, as I remember seeing another user correct him, along with the fact that accoriding to studies,
5 is the optimal team number, Monero has a team of around 7, which is way closer to the optimal number of 5, than boolberries team of 2. Source:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/04/agile-optimal-team-size