The gap is even smaller if you think of channels like ProtoCooks with Chef Frank, where the chef they got for meme cooking videos (an actual culinary instructor

The gap is even smaller if you think of channels like ProtoCooks with Chef Frank, where the chef they got for meme cooking videos (an actual culinary instructor) has his own fun-to-watch channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmp69SeMhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmp69SeMhs The gap for me, a complete amateur home cook, between one culinary instructor and the next is mostly down to who I find it fun to learn from. I think you see the same thing in programming: some principal engineers are more fun to listen to, even if they’re not the “most talented”, and the difference doesn’t matter until you’re further into the field. tldr: People who are top 5% talent and top 5% communicators are only 0.25% of the population, but they have outsized viewership in popular education materials. They’re their own kind of “special talent” in a field.