Carmack and Woz, without Romereo and Jobs to truly see the potential of their work, would probably still be sitting deep in the R&D department of some large engineering company.
Working with Jobs was probably better for Woz than working with Carmack ever could have been.
Jobs had a sense of how what Woz's talent could change the world. Woz may have enjoyed showing off his projects to Carmack, but I doubt Carmack could have gotten to leave his job at HP.
