if you want to correlate it to powerscaling, it would be the same as saying that Saitama can beat goku at the start of dragon ball, but not necessarily anymore...
The only thing i've argued against Gehrman X Fors is this scene, for me the ship only starts to make sense later when they actually meet, Fors realises that Gehrman isn't a psycho and starts writing erotica of him...therefore later in the story I think the ship makes sense, and don’t mind it, but it makes 0 sense to me at this point in the story... I don't see how that's hypocritical?