Fair point. Nevertheless, "resources" to me doesn't just mean money, it means systems and institutional memory. If the e-discovery systems are crappy (having been built in-house in the last three years?), then more money and paralegals on a given case won't fix the problem of scattered, disorganized docs. It'll still just be public employees putting in extra hours to try and chase down every scrap of paper.

Side note, too: Seniority and experience can be a handicap for an ADA or deputy chief in these circumstances, because they learned the ropes under a very different discovery regime, so they will have a hard time adapting compared to more junior ADAs who will learn quickly as they plow through a zillion lower-stakes cases.