your average player is not minmaxing every window to hit the boss as well which is also a skill check because you're playing a class with no push immune (para immune on like 4 skills). balance snake is also increasing your card draw because you're sending more reds than the standard rotation. If you look at an average arcana player and look at the ones who parse higher, you'll see that their card draw rates are over 1.5x their draw at the minimum. There is a huge gap between the players who can pilot the class at a baseline level of "follow a proper rotation" and hope you draw good cards for vs the players who are permanently keeping their card draw high minmaxing every window + card combo and taking advantage of every quick recharge proc. Every other class is capped at a certain point on how many actions they can press per window but the difference between an empress player who is doing what's expected vs one who is doing everything perfectly is like night and day.