> Rather, it's a critique of the mythbuilding that seems to surround Feynman--and only Feynman, you don't see this stuff around (say) Hawking or Einstein--that turn him into the only physicist worth emulating.

He's the only one who left behind a model for how to go about emulating him.

Hawking and Einstein left behind their work but nothing I'm aware of teaching others how to do comparable work.