Gents,
Surely, the whole point of angling is that it's a smorgasbord? You decide what you want from it, whether that is to specialise in one or more species, to match fish or, like me, to cast out a bait and be delighted by whatever comes along?
Speaking purely for myself, I think life's too short to want to catch only one species of fish but that's just my take. I respect anybody who takes that path, even though it's not my choice.
To my mind, it doesn't matter if a big or record fish falls to somebody who's given their life to catching it or to a first time angler or to a non-species approach.
It's the element of chance. It's there for all of us. Very possibly, single species specialism or determinism or, simply, putting the hours in might increase that chance a little but, simply, it IS chance.
Angling's big enough for all of us, for ALL approaches and for NEW approaches. It's one great, big experiment and we do all learn every time we partake.
Surely, live and let live - and learn, is the name of the game?