That's true but the difference of course with a star player is that the hiring team can examine in detail the past performances of the player. They usually only

That's true but the difference of course with a star player is that the hiring team can examine in detail the past performances of the player. They usually only hire if the player is competent. The problem is that the elite quitter is usually incompetent. They are capable of learning some new things. But they are incompetent in the sense that they are incapable of seeing that the new thing is often the same as or worse than the old thing. They are incompetent in the sense that they have a low attention span and do not follow up on the things they do so they never learn from their mistakes. They often love complexity etc etc So the hiring team cannot see these details directly. It's up to them to have competent interviewers to flush this out. But of course they are often in awe of the latest fad themselves and so on it goes.