Better can be argued. More performant though? Yes, massively so.

Turns out spending some time understanding what your CPU and GPU are actually doing when running your app, and how to make them do less work, leads to pretty speedy software.

Then it also turns out that this does not seem to impede most of the features of the software it is competing with, meaning that software is by definition wasteful.

It can't even be argued that the other software made better use of human resources since it's a large team vs one guy who is often not even getting paid, and the guy is the one with the fast software.