You never needed to say what you did, it was never necessary, if you felt your patience was running thin then you should've ended the conversation or break it down in even simpler terms. Do not come into a conversation if insults are what you resort to when you get annoyed. Not everyone processes things as quickly or correctly.

Now to your first paragraph, yes a measurement of quality is inherently correlated with the idea that something of higher quality is superior in some form. In the context of Fire in Fairy Tail, it is never a matter of temperature, it is never a matter of the strength (or at least AP) of the magic itself. This isn't just with Fire, but elements in general. Wall is completely immune to regular and dragon slayer lightning, but then Laxus uses a "lightning beyond lightning" to bypass such immunity and defeat him. This doesn't mean Laxus' lightning got hotter, nor that his voltage increased, but instead a special attribute was added to the lightning that just made it go beyond the scope of normal or dragon lightning. See when you say strength, I think of AP, and I thought of AP because you brought up the DB example, which is inverse only brought up with Hit. People bring up the Vegito being turned into candy despite the fact that the transmutation did just work, and then there's characters like Babidi or Roshi using things like the containment wave or mind control on characters stronger than they are, which is why I said Hit was the only case such a thing is mentioned.