Everyone laughs at the precisely arranged layers of folded blankets at the foot of the bed until they wake up shivering.

Same for my mountain of pillows of different thickness.

In a sense, more people working towards secret protection generally did result in better secret protection, like encryption algorithms and secure architecture and whatnot.

It only starts to become a paradox when you get into actually executing the task of protecting a specific secret… but I think we could draw that line somewhere for almost any task.

There is a point of generality where more people means better results and a point of specificity where you only want the exact right number of people.