Comment by geofft

I would love to see someone study this from a management / human factors perspective. I can think of all sorts of reasons why a team can't perform as well as an individual, ranging from the team needing to support more use cases than the individual does (onboarding via the web was super important for Slack's growth, I'd bet), everyone thinking it's not their place to rethink some major decision, some major decision being rethought but execution stuck in a team that isn't performing well, etc. And I'd be really curious, if you were in charge of a large organization, how to make it as effective as a single person (while still handling all the broad edge cases that large organizations do handle).

I suspect that "Why is Linux competitive with Windows" has many of the same answers, in the end.