Soul, Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and Masters of Doom are my three favorite "computer product development heroics" narratives and I think they all describe toxic workplaces by the standards of 2022 and employees who aren't monomaniacs.

In their defense, a compelling book is going to select for drama, and depict it as dramatically as possible. And id Software was a small group of people who'd worked together before. Many people in the latter two books made bank.