You can make someone a 20% better engineer but you can't make someone genuinely care about the product you're making. That's why I'd rather work with someone worse technically that wants the product they get to help build.
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so why do so many former founder partners leave YC? What or who is the reason YC can’t scale itself and retain its own people, let alone bring in any non-YC people?
The most common reason partners leave is probably to start new companies. But YC doesn't have any trouble scaling itself. The policy from the beginning was to accept every sufficiently good applicant, and that's still the policy.
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