Not only is this the case for solo devs, tech partnerships, and spend-averse people who don't do money to time conversions.
But if you have low cash on a company and have excess workforce, you might not necessarily get to a point where you have to fire, but you can spend those, already paid for, man-hours, in migrations and infrastructure to save some cash.
As an added bonus you have tasks to give your otherwise idle workforce to keep them warmed up