Why wouldn't they be? Of course working on your own profitable project is much more fun and makes much more financial sense than being an employee, building a

Why wouldn't they be? Of course working on your own profitable project is much more fun and makes much more financial sense than being an employee, building a project for somebody else, and capturing only a fraction of value you create. Obviously everybody wants to do something more fun and profitable and not something less fun and less profitable. People in other professions would too, but they usually just can't.