You can absolutely beat people in greenfield projects with experience; choosing and designing business data structures optimally so that not a lot has to be ref

You can absolutely beat people in greenfield projects with experience; choosing and designing business data structures optimally so that not a lot has to be refactored. I don't really buy into the idea of attributing "x speed" to a developer, the idea is trying to oversimplify what is really a function of experience in- and the complexity of current task