Here's the results for physics, showing a decline:pic.twitter.com/QgqebTkvwv
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A team can be more than the sum of its members, but the kind of 'breakthrough' made by a large team is never going to be a conceptual one, is it? So this graph may be saying the opposite of what you're assuming.
We're not particularly assuming breakthroughs are conceptual. I don't really grant your first assertion, either, although I understand the arguments that can be made for it.
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On the first assertion, I think examples like (say) general relativity are very interesting. It can be viewed as the outcome of a team, across history - Euclid, Newton, Lobachevsky, Riemann, Einstein (and many, many others, of course).
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General relativity is. The concepts that distinguish general relativity from predecessors are breakthroughs made by Einstein.
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