I think I kinda agree, but there's a big caveat. I've thought about these problems a lot, and I like the idea of cooperation and team-work being how we grow and develop. It doesn't square off with my own lived experience though. I consider myself a pretty good developer. That hasn't come out of "teamwork" though. My early developer days, the days where I didn't quite know enough to actually plan out what I needed to work on, weren't dominated by helpful voices guiding me along. They were filled with antisocial freaks on the internet telling me how stupid I was for asking such a basic question. The odd thing was that it didn't repel me, it drew me in. I became one of them, I sat down and searched day and night. I spent 4-7 hours every day after school just trying to understand what this computer thing was, and how it all fit together. The early work I did to learn the technical aspects of being a developer was all fueled by antisocial hyper focus, at a great cost to many other parts of my life. It undeniably made me pretty good at the technical aspects though.

I've since leveled out a bit. With the technical stuff roughly figured out. I've since moved on to the people problems, and there it's much more about the cooperation. I couldn't meaningfully contribute to those "people problems" If I didn't have the antisocial beginnings though.

I have a hard time "developing" developers, when I look back at my own lived experience. I like what and who I am, but the cost has been pretty steep. I'm not sure I can take other people down that path in good consistence.