Yeah, that's been my precise problem with how SB and the rare others on Reddit tend to debate legit piss me off something fierce. There's many reasons for the style to exist and just using that alone to then go "Well, they are surely more faster than this medium here" is just extremely lazy and virtual fan-fic levels of debating rather than doing any real debating. It's the same issue I have when people cannot understand that Supersonic, Mach, FTL, AU and so on are Units of Measurement/Speed and are not the end all, be all even in their own fields and SB is especially guilty of that shit. A character is Supersonic even if they are FTL because Supersonic is just being faster than Sound, a character can be x100 FTL and still be FTL as it's just a measurement of speed, AU is just Astronomical Units of crossing the distance from the Sun to the Earth and so on with shit like Planck. I can never understand how people can't understand that and yet desperately use it as a crutch without...