Originally Posted by Raffles

Promise you, that's not it.

The issue is simple. When you know your stuff, anyone you hire will know less than you. Their content won't be as good as you could produce, so you rewrite it. Rewriting it takes longer than it would have taken you to write it yourself from scratch. Add in people management etc and it is the logical approach. External writers are best for reviews - since you can save the time of taking the trip - but the whole point of OMAAT is the reviews so that won't be outsourced.