One thing I will say, from talking to the various people who worked on this and then USDS, they were almost entirely burnt out at the end because they were having just non-stop meetings and doing constant firefighting and trying to get large government contractors to act like tech startups.

In retrospect, maybe we shouldn't worship "heros who drop in, save a project, then leave", especially if it leads to non-sustainable lifestyle for the heros, or creates further technical debt that makes it hard for contractors to develop sites.