[snoman]

Optimizing for the rarest of scenarios - that you're going to hire the bestest engineers in all the worlds - is silly and foolish.

It's not negative. It's pragmatic. If you even happen to just encounter one of those people (they're rare by definition) then do what you can to hire them, but the truth is that the vast majority of companies producing software wouldn't even know what to do with them if they could attract them.

Stable, predictable, performance has a ton of value too - and you get a lot of that from 'regular' developers.