Those who complain most loudly about the 10x being a myth are those whose self opinion of their skill (placing themselves as a 10x), and their actual level of s

Those who complain most loudly about the 10x being a myth are those whose self opinion of their skill (placing themselves as a 10x), and their actual level of skill (placing them a 1x) are too far apart. Often they don't realise what their actual skill level is until then meet and work with a real 10x in the flesh. This makes sense because why would you care if people believe there are 10x programmers or not? Why would you be upset if people are going around tweeting that unicorns are real? It makes no difference to anyone. It's only a problem if it rubs up badly against your self-esteem.