Certainly, everyone has "a number" they're willing to suffer for - but telegraphing the suffering ensures that number will be maxed out and morale/motivation will be rock bottom. So: you're paying a huge premium for underperforming talent. Destruction.
Morale is already pretty low, at least for those of us making less than the SWEs.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.