Do you feel that you would have had as much success with less strong developers? (Edit: probably better phrased as "Do you think success would have been possible with less strong developers")

I don't mean "bad" developers as much as I mean ordinary "enterprise" developers.

The real concern I have is with hiring - what is the likelihood that you can take a competent Java developer (or any competent developer, I suppose) and expect them to make good decisions with Scala in a relatively short window of time (say 1-2 months)?