That's a mischaracterization. The passionate grumps don't lack collaboration, patience and tolerance. Instead they have more commitment to the product and comp

That's a mischaracterization. The passionate grumps don't lack collaboration, patience and tolerance. Instead they have more commitment to the product and company then to power relationships and hierarchies They may also be impossible to work with but that's independent (alright, it's likely correlated). Anyway, the hard-nosed ones are closer in spirit to scientists who get mischaracterized as uncooperative inflexible foot-draggers because their advocacies and endorsements aren't a functional of social relationships and ideally can't be changed by them.