I'll say. It does not sound like you'd be very fun to work with, as a teammate or a stakeholder.
If you saw what I write you'd say I was a 20x coder, but that's just from a youngin's perspective. I've been writing code since 1988. The basic value proposition for my clients is that they know I'll die at some point, but it's way cheaper and more efficient to pay one guy they know will get it done, and take the risk they'll have to scramble for someone else in less than 10 years (at which point they'll likely have to rewrite anyway). Also, the shit I write mostly maintains itself. I'm proud to say that my software in 24/7 production has had no actual crashes in years other than the occasional forced server upgrade. If I died, it would take awhile to notice if they didn't keep asking me for new features.
I'm a bit of a rarity in the modern world (and here in the corporate space that is HN), in that I'm the sole programmer on a bunch of large software projects in production that I also maintain and sysadmin 24/7. The only meetings needed are to understand what the clients want and bitch at them that what they want makes no sense, until they start making sense, and then trust me to build it. If something comes up from a design perspective that I think could go one of several ways, I usually have that thought in the shower and mumble to myself for awhile before framing it in terms they would understand as a series of yes/no choices.
This is generally way more efficient than hiring a team, and I know, because I've tried to hire teams to do it. There's a limit to what one coder like me can do, but it's a lot higher than what 4 people bickering can do. I'd say it's around what 8 bickering people can do.
Design and defense of design, though, is not just about ego. Not if it's done properly. The best design/code people will come to you and say this is why this is the only way to do X and lay out the chain of logic that led them to that conclusion. That's not because they'll be personally hurt if you don't go that direction; it's that they're annoyed they'll have to do extra work to make an inferior product if you don't take their advice. Promote those people.