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You hit on something important which is there's a difference between being a programmer and being a programmer on a team. Working together on something creative like a codebase or a design is a whole different set of skills that's arguable more important than just being good at programming.

Many people see successful people who are socially maladjusted and try to emulate the maladjustment part in hopes of replicating the success. Correlation <> causation

Are you saying I bought all these black turtleneck sweaters for nothing?!?

Agreed for the talent<->rudeness. The whole manager vs hacker thing is also terrible.

Of course there are some bad managers, as much as there are bad hackers (and bad coworkers etc...). There are also some really good ones.

World is not black and white, more like 50 shades of grey (OMG I should be slapped for this joke).