This is often true on the journey to reach feature-parity with an original codebase. The reason is obvious, of course: it has less features, and doing nothing

This is often true on the journey to reach feature-parity with an original codebase. The reason is obvious, of course: it has less features, and doing nothing is always faster than doing something. Once it's feature complete, then meaningful comparisons can be made. For now, it's puffery.