Well, Usain Bolt has infinitely more current world records in the 100M than anybody else. He probably also makes more than 10x more money in sponsorship deals than the second fastest or whoever is the fastest currently active sprinter.

I know plenty of software developers who can solve bugs or design systems that the average developer would never be able to do. Those people are infinitely better at those tasks than the average.

10x performance is easy as long as you do not constrain it to something inane. Impact and the ability to solve problems that others can not are functional and practical examples of that.