I concur.
Bury this mother.
Alex is my buddy, I don't compete with him, he doesn't compete with me. We don't talk to each other about our own bass playing. If we even talk about bass, it's usually about some other guy that we both like to listen to. For example; he turned me on to Jonas Hellborg once. We've listened to Tribal Tech for a while when we toured together years back. He was into Sadus when he was a kid. But I think we've enrolled in different sides to the low end of metal since those old days.
Comparing musicians for competition (who aren't knowingly and willingly in open competition) is impossible because that type of thing is saved for sports. And comparing musicians in different styles is like comparing a hockey player to a basketball player. Their skills are different and aren't relevant or related.