>>76499048 (OP)
>I've been lifting X number of years
A meaningless statement. Says nothing about consistency, effort, quality of programming, etc.
See people every day in the gym that never break a sweat and spend five minutes scrolling their phones in between every low-effort set with dogshit form.
Also see people every day that come in and bust their ass, working as hard as they can.
They can both eventually say they've lifted for X years, but who do you think will look better, all else being equal?