No matter if they exist, this debate is tiring because most teams would rather need a 5th Junior person doing quantitative stuff
This debate underminds how insane the progress of two good engineers can be if they have the freedom to bounce ideas between them.
And this "10x" debate seems to overrate coders that are genuinely just good slightly over average but again worse than hiring two people.
Founders who can't code or recruiters have no effing idea who "10x" engineers really are. They're wasting money on the wrong people because of this debate
One of my personal opinions on this is: