What happens when rest of the team does not rise to the occasion? You now have a happy but very mediocre team for the task on hand. Decision making is very democratic but seldom happens in time.
I feel you need pace setters but not excessively reward individual heroics.
I know NetApp (stack based on FreeBSD) contributed significantly to Bhyve when they were exploring options to virtualize Data ONTAP (C mode)
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/bhyve-the-freebsd-hypervi...