As much as people laud 10x engineers, the reality is that if you can make the people around you 2-3x more effective you’re likely adding the value of a 15-20x engineer without writing a line of code.
Are there people who say "I propose we subtly adjust the product in this way which saves us 7 person-months of development effort and 2 months in time to market while delivering 90% of the original proposal's value?" Yeah, there are, and I don't understand why we pretend that can't be a thing.