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I had a "Bob" a few years ago who was a unique case: He was a very intelligent, experienced senior developer who at some point lost his ability to actually ship. Given a relatively straightforward feature, he went into agonizing detail in his documentation, spent months implementing layer upon layer of abstractions, held himself to noble standards like never testing or debugging on a production server...and the end result after a year (plus) of effort was a repo full of such high-brow code that nobody could make sense of it. Once he was gone, we got a junior developer to rewrite his last feature in two weeks.

He was moved around between a few managers after he passed the zenith of his 15 year stint at that company, but from what I was able to piece together he didn't succeed in bringing a single feature to production in the last five years he was there. He was just so darned friendly and smart that nobody was willing to do the needful and separate him.