You may be on to something. While complaining in a different thread, I realized recruiters today are not "agents" or "partners", they're "brokers" whose job is to complete a transaction in a way that grants them a big bottom-line.

The big recruiters have a continuous churn of entry level employees, so reputation does not play a part in their mission. Maybe this kind of relationship between 10x developers and representation would be beneficial for the entire industry.