The funny thing is that more money doesn’t equal to more quality. For example Firefox has become pretty bad recently even with all those resources and money they have. Also, I think money has became a kind of problem in addons, when some feature is withheld from Blender, because it is a $ addon.
I don’t even see a lot of what I would call quality development in Blender both in UI design and code quality. It’s ok I guess, but nothing special.