Everything has more "individuals" now, since everyone can get a soapbox/megaphone, from YouTube to GitHub to Twitter to all the rest. And it's possible to mone

Everything has more "individuals" now, since everyone can get a soapbox/megaphone, from YouTube to GitHub to Twitter to all the rest. And it's possible to monetize that work now, with ads and micro-patrons, which is a huge drain on free and open source, mitigated only (partially) by the increased ability for open sourcerers to collaborate and that nowadays we're drowing in software and don't really need much more new software. You don't need to join a team to get noticed (and on the ugly side, even though having a team helps, it's better for the Personal Brand to make that team invisible)