This is a classic pattern: when advocating for one of several competing approaches, you spend more care optimizing your favourite approach than the competitors.

This is a classic pattern: when advocating for one of several competing approaches, you spend more care optimizing your favourite approach than the competitors. Prof. Geoffrey Hinton specifically calls this out as a pitfall in research. It's better to compare your promising new approach versus another group's approach (not your own implementation thereof). This, assuming that the other group has deep knowledge in tuning their competing approach.