[billmalarky]

This is just a matter of scale. Sure you might be a "10x" developer, and such a developer does provide a tremendous amount of value to an organization. But if you are such an effective manager as to raise the value of a team of engineers significantly, then you are going to generally provide more value to the company than a single rockstar engineer. Of course there are outliers (IE Carmack) but generally skilled technical management scales better than skilled individual technical talent.