alt Hacker NewsFirst does not always equal superior.
We "distilled" modern cars from Model-T. You still driving the car that was "first" off an assembly line?
This is normal improvement to manufacture of stuff. Your handwavy "it was first so its winner-winner chicken dinner!" is little more than your personal form of expression.
Since LLMs are a distill of web content, by your poorly defined metric, you must not value LLMs and AI companies? The content already existed! They're just a new indexing tool.
Must be strange to work hard in a competitive environment and have all customers pretend your product is always exactly the same.
Each wizard school also seems to take a different approach and have different goals. Soon people will benchmark lawyers with Lego.