It's worse than hypocrisy, it's accomplishing the opposite of what it's supposed to do. It's only a matter of time until there is an obvious gap in skill, which

It's worse than hypocrisy, it's accomplishing the opposite of what it's supposed to do. It's only a matter of time until there is an obvious gap in skill, which will only hurt the reputation of that group and then the situation could backfire when conflict starts arising among people with different skillset.