Great points here. With exception of perhaps top end of successful commercial products or some usable patents during development of technology most developers

Great points here. With exception of perhaps top end of successful commercial products or some usable patents during development of technology most developers do not get any passive income no matter how much good work is delivered over decades. Everyone is just about as good as their next JIRA task completion. This all just means half-assed broken, bloated feature deliveries which is to be fixed in next scrum or whatever.