Well Sam, if you don’t want them to leave here is a little secret for you: instead of posting Slack messages with stupid analogies (no it’s not like someone breaking into your home, people can select the employer most attractive to them) compensate them better than anyone else and don’t overwork them. High compensation + right culture and work and life balance is unbeatable.

Wow. Guys, really, when you start saying things like this, put your devices down, step away from them with your hands in the air, and go outside. Please. This is a textbook red flag. Please. And this is coming from someone that isn't old at all.

"What does that even mean? ", when you look at the homepage and are scrolling, those AI images sticks out and not in positive way. You know there is something off but you don't know what that is and that is what I meant. It is the uncanny valley annoyance zone. Lot of people don't experience it specially old people (hence easy to be fooled by AI images) and in that case its fine for them.

What is your budget? What do you need in that budget? (i.e. processor, memory, etc.) Additionally, this is quite difficult to read. Please put the parts in pcpartpicker. https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/

If you really believe that, then you don't know what JavaScript really is. 99% of websites use it on the client side, and that's just to start with, we haven't talked about the server side yet and the whole set of tools and software that is written in JavaScript. You're very brave for saying that in public. I salute you.