You started with comparing usage numbers, and to me that is more about sociology and economics than tech at this point. If you're talking about "true potential" in a vacuum, great. Functionality for the win. I don't think using any of the others as a model, a comparison, a goal, a thought in basically any way, results in attempting to follow a path that is what I already described. "How can I be better?" vs "How can I get closer to what they are without becoming them?"