True and it often ends underwhelmingly. On the other hand "innovators left at launch and passed it off to the maintenance team" alone must not be a bad thing.

True and it often ends underwhelmingly. On the other hand "innovators left at launch and passed it off to the maintenance team" alone must not be a bad thing. Innovator types are rarely maintainer types and vice versa. In the open-source world look at Fabrice Bellard for example. Do you think he would have been able to create so many innovative projects if he had to maintain them too?