This sounds ludicrous but the base problem really isn't that odd. If your output is so completely out of the league of the other people in the company, the busi

This sounds ludicrous but the base problem really isn't that odd. If your output is so completely out of the league of the other people in the company, the business has to treat that as a risk. What happens if you get run over tomorrow? Great, now we have an unmaintained product. There is probably liability attached to that too. But there are better available solutions than just erasing the existence of this super-developer. They could train the other staff. They could hire better developers. Seriously, there are so many things that don't involve scrapping this developer's existing work producy... It makes me suspicious that their brilliance isn't the only problem. A lone-wolf with a big head can really tough to work with. But if that's a misapplied stereotype, he should be talking to his managers to dissolve the risk amongst the other developers safely, and/or hire new ones for this product.