<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@timbray" class="u-url mention">@<span>timbray</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cafe/@baldur" class="u-url mention">@<span>baldur</span></a></span> a different way to think of it is treating a specialist + a tool as a single unit of comparison, not one or the other. Like, you can't compare programming languages to each other even for a similar task, because a lot depends on whether a programmer or a team likes the language and is efficient at it.</p><p>Another analogy is racing: it's long established that you can't compare drivers or cars in isolation, only a particular driver driving a particular car as a whole unit.</p>