In my experience, it is not as often as you might think. The key issue comes down to brilliance coupled with selfishness.
If you look for it, you can see some common themes in these comments: "...the other team members were all forced to work around his refactor and waste time updating their PRs to match his work," or "Meanwhile we were all left to deal with his fallout," or "...this particular eng ... ended up costing almost as much to clean up his mess as the value we got from him in the first place." We have all had to work with that guy. In the early part of my career, I have been that guy.
People are not arguing because they don't understand your brilliance and are jealous of your productivity. It is because you are making their lives harder. That is what makes people bitter.
Turn the problem around: instead of asking "how can I get all of these over-zealous, jealous people to leave me alone", ask, "how can I apply my brilliance to make their lives easier instead of harder?" Unless you are doing something basically trivial, there is usually too much work for any one person to do it all by themselves, no matter how brilliant. You need those people. So help them out. You will have a much better time. And so will they.
In my experience, it is not as often as you might think. The key issue comes down to brilliance coupled with selfishness.
If you look for it, you can see some common themes in these comments: "...the other team members were all forced to work around his refactor and waste time updating their PRs to match his work," or "Meanwhile we were all left to deal with his fallout," or "...this particular eng ... ended up costing almost as much to clean up his mess as the value we got from him in the first place." We have all had to work with that guy. In the early part of my career, I have been that guy.
People are not arguing because they don't understand your brilliance and are jealous of your productivity. It is because you are making their lives harder. That is what makes people bitter.
Turn the problem around: instead of asking "how can I get all of these over-zealous, jealous people to leave me alone", ask, "how can I apply my brilliance to make their lives easier instead of harder?" Unless you are doing something basically trivial, there is usually too much work for any one person to do it all by themselves, no matter how brilliant. You need those people. So help them out. You will have a much better time. And so will they.