[Izkata]

> and ignoring his often legitimate complaints. It does not address the question why high performers sometimes get irritable. The reasons can range from people intriguing against them with lies to being underappreciated.

This one stuck out at me too. We now have "architect" roles, and one of them was assigned to our group, having never even looked at our legacy codebases before, and during a meeting my response to what he wanted was pretty close to what's in this post - "that doesn't make sense / isn't a good idea". I didn't have a good on-the-spot explanation at that moment, it came from years of experience working with this legacy system, that I had to later figure out how to summarize all of that and put that intuition into words.