Take for example elo ranking in video games
Top10% or top5% may sound good
But the gap between top10% and top1% (let alone top 0.1%) is so huge that you could say that those ppl barely understand this game
Same when top 1% is matched against 0.1%
The top ten percent is not actual feces. It's just varying degrees of mediocre.
A top 1% ranked Dota player is about Divine 5, the only higher bracket being Immortal and its associated ranking individual. I think you're really stretching the idiom if you're implying Divine 5 players (most of whom have 3000+ hours) "barely understand this game." Obviously a team of immortals shouldn't ever lose to a team of divines, but I don't think it would have the appearance of a competition of total newbies vs seasoned pros.
Based on this logic, do you think the law should be that 99.9% of everything is crap?