in my experience 8 years professionally as a dev fullstack with front end focus. the highly competent often lose their eagerness to contribute over time anyways

in my experience 8 years professionally as a dev fullstack with front end focus. the highly competent often lose their eagerness to contribute over time anyways OR they go elsewhere and work in a new area where they dont have competency from the get go. so instead of being an asshole "with talent" eventually they end up just being an asshole whos very slightly better then the next guy. Either that or, more likely they learn that collaboration is more then just producing code they want and they become not an asshole.