Make sure you are at least getting 1x developers though. While I agree, a solid team is incredibly valuable, if your A-Team is made of folks with zero ability, your team will have zero ability.
In my experience, people who agonize over the individual are usually not thinking about the team. Part of team-building is identifying people with potential and growing them.
When we engineer systems, we try to avoid or deal with single points of failure. The same concept applies to people, except that "failure" when applied to people is often not as easy to define or identify.
While I agree that one's contribution to the team can tromp raw individual performance (all good leaders know this!), I would be careful not to go too far in the other direction. A bad engineer can sabotage an entire project regardless of his cheerleading abilities.
