And how many incredibly-productive people have been chased off of products by the toxic individuals that were being "worked around?" We may never know. You ac

And how many incredibly-productive people have been chased off of products by the toxic individuals that were being "worked around?" We may never know. You act as if we can have perfect knowledge into what the tradeoffs will be, but that just isn't the case. Also, I don't think there are very many people who match your strawman -- "snowflakes [who] like to believe that everyone contributes equally." If you've worked in software (or really in any industry) for any time at all, you know that everyone is an individual performer with their own individual pace. But if you believe that that pace is solely a factor of their own productivity and isn't influenced by the environment they're in, you're being incredibly naive. Those toxic individuals are usually the ones that contribute the "negative amount overall" you mention, due to how they poison the atmosphere and reduce everyone else's output. Which is to say, the project is indeed better off without their participation.