CR10, We are all at different levels. You are not better than me and I am not better than you.
Those two sentences contradict each other, so no, not much clearer.
Sam2, “Superior” is a dumb word in this discussion. It’s pointless.
No, it’s not. I make judgments all the time (and you probably do as well) to decide who to emulate, and in what way.
If I consider someone an adam chashuv (“superior”), I will take his actions much more seriously as worthy of copying, and his thoughts and hashkafos as worthy of accepting and learning from, than someone who is not as chashuv (“inferior”).