[Arisaka1]

As far as I know, appearances win every time, so the appearance of you being (to put it in video game terms) "the carry" is much better than you being the one who teaches others.

Then we have the replaceability factor. It's not rare for someone to try to secure their spot by making themselves irreplaceable, and one way of doing this is by being the only person working on a project or the vast majority of the codebase. I'm currently onboarded in a (previously) 1-man project and I find myself learning why they designed things like that instead of learning the framework and best practices.

[sebastianconcpt]

I despise seeing appearances win over substance. I feel like every time illusion trumps over reality, whoever is involved in that is making humanity be pushed one little bit closer to asking to be fooled in a massive illusory lie ala Plato's Cave (or The Matrix 1999 if you prefer).