[helsinkiandrew]

You can say something similar about a lot of inventions or discoveries that happened in a time when many others were working in the same area. Light bulbs, powered flight, calculus, the EMF laws etc.

History seems to like a single origin story.

[flohofwoe]

Not just history and not just inventions (ok, this quote is pretty much history by now too):

"There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.

I guess whoever wrote that line didn't even get the irony.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/11/12/deus-ex-2