You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.
We can get distracted in arguing which of the two alternatives is better when either are far better than the situation we have today.
Even though wrestling is getting more popular - wrestling being more popular than it was five years ago is like being the nicest guy in prison, it's not a huge compliment, but it's still taking place.
The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot better. It all cancels itself out.
If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground.