The 10X engineer might be a myth, but there's a real danger to ending up with a an organization full of "mediocre" talent that can't ship a good-quality product.

Nearly every IoT product I buy seems to be staffed with those mediocre teams, resulting in apps that are practically useless.

I'm not going to say that some "top talent" won't be toxic to an organization, but having _nobody_ in those top spots to help mentor and bring up the level of more junior developers in an organization is a recipe for shipping nothing but bad products that make nobody happy.