Work with the open source languages you love without the hassles of runtime management.

If a company really wanted to invest, I would prefer they dedicated an employee for X hours a week for Y months than money.

Money could be good if it is spent to provide some of the above things. Money on it's own is hard because then it means I would have to spend time book-keeping and managing instead of programming.

Doing a HOC properly, as a library should, with hoisted statics and displayName and ref, etc., is a hassle and would add unnecessary bulk.