Not necessarily so.

My background is a profession that is most usually measured by hours of experience, where it is assumed that Joe, with 12,321 hours is better than Sam with only 458 hours.

I've seen Joe make the same mistake over and over again, and he's past being corrected, especially by Sam who he considers a newby.

If you learn something wrong, and then practice it for 10,000 hours, it's still gonna be wrong and you're no expert.