&gt;Just when things started picking up, the dev decided he wasn&#x27;t getting enough of the pie and bailed, destroying the entire enterprise.<p>&gt;deal with the emotional vagaries of software developers<p>This is a human trait, not a software developer trait:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologicalscience.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;news&#x2F;releases&#x2F;are-humans-hardwired-for-fairness.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologicalscience.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;news&#x2F;releases...</a><p>He would do better to learn to temper his greed rather than to learn programming.