[FLUX-YOU]

>It makes you one-dimensional and particularly poor at building products for others unlike yourself.

So they're possibly better at writing backend code.

Let's make an effort to keep them employed by finding positions they can succeed in instead of purging people at the first sign of personality traits we don't like (that they may not have been able to control in the first place).

[malandrew]

Amen. Linux and much of all the open source code in most language ecosystems that people rely on are usually written by such people. Purging them is akin to purging the giants whose shoulders many product engineers stand on.