If a company isn't positioned to turn a profit on the output of a rockstar, why is that company trying to retain a development team at all? Every company I've w

If a company isn't positioned to turn a profit on the output of a rockstar, why is that company trying to retain a development team at all? Every company I've worked at for a decade was eagerly hiring every rockstar they could find, except the one on the verge of bankruptcy that was trying to get acquired.