It shows you how smart Jerry Seinfeld was. Go out on top.
Johnny Carson too. People were stunned that he really did just ‘walk away’ from his top tier status to the gauzy nothingness of not being a “Star”. Wasn’t that the most important thing in life? Carson wisely knew, no, being a ‘Star’ was not the ultimate way to exist. Not in real life.
Doris Day, same story, but she may have been fed up with being swindled by her most recent husbands.
Bob Hope could not give it up till the very bitter end. I got used to seeing photos of him in the National Enquierer all red-eyed and dazed looking , (though still sharply dressed in a Tux) as he aged in the public eye.