Other artists calling him out isn't convincing to me. Every rock band that makes it big is a "sellout" to their unsuccessful colleagues. He had art that people wanted so he sold it widely and efficiently. Is that not the description of every monetarily successful artist? Or are you supposed to make poor business decisions and stumble into success on accident?

If an artist isn’t maniacal and going against the convention their colleagues demand, I don’t want them.

Am I also very greedy for writing code once that gets executed millions of times and used to charge hundreds of thousands of customers?