It doesn't follow, it's a non-sequitur. There's nothing about using prestige as a proxy for excellence that has any bearing on investigating what got them ther

It doesn't follow, it's a non-sequitur. There's nothing about using prestige as a proxy for excellence that has any bearing on investigating what got them there in the first place. It's akin to claiming that accepting financial success as a decent proxy for business acumen means no one is interested in knowing how they originally because financially successful. Not only does it not follow, it makes no sense as to why accepting one would even imply someone wasn't interested in the other.