Developers getting payed

[Pollux]

People getting paid doesn't raise their coding capability

Raises reason to want to develop.

I assume our current (and most past) developers did not have money as motivation for their effort? 

People getting paid doesn't raise their coding capability

No, but it would likely raise output for some.

Doesn't output naturally occur from experience?

Yes and with pretty much every developer FL has had so far, it starts off with a few updates being released from them which slowly slows down into almost nothing. Output depends on motivation too, which if there's none then there will be hardly any output. I think the discussion is more trying to find ways to maintain developer motivation.