Oh, I think they are not as rare as you think. People are actively deterred from, say, Linux kernel development because of the community.
It's almost as though software development skills aren't correlated with social skills...
We have significant, documented evidence of assholes producing world changing software.
We can’t do the same for the inverse personality type, can we?
I’d rather have amazing open source free software than the validation of a blue check mark.
Not unless you discount the idea that it could be even better software if those people hadn't been turned away...