"Individuals matter" does not mean that teams do not.
The "individuals matter" is contrasted with "individuals do not matter" and not with "teams matter".
If you think about this it is exactly pro-team. It means that the team is built from the people that compose the team and people are sometimes intimately linked together through the circumstances in which the team was built and cannot be easily replaced. The team building is path dependent and that path cannot be easily replicated.
The "individuals matter" is contrasted with "individuals do not matter" and not with "teams matter".
If you think about this it is exactly pro-team. It means that the team is built from the people that compose the team and people are sometimes intimately linked together through the circumstances in which the team was built and cannot be easily replaced. The team building is path dependent and that path cannot be easily replicated.
There are even examples of this in the article.