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This point applies universally to everything, and as a result it's vacuous. Anything is the best at being what it actually is.
I don't think that's obvious. Remember that all observations are theory-laden. A bad hammer isn't a (really good (bad hammer)) it's just a (bad (hammer)). Once we establish what something is actually for, it can be evaluated on its merits.