There are very talented new bunch, before 2008 there was no guy that could match Chris and Daut on a constant basis, maybe Geek seemed to could for a while and Ding but appeared in 2007. Riut with good practice can be the best, Viper is very smart and learned a lot in few time and is a hard worker, Jordan plays everyday better even practicing quite few. Tim is great too but maybe lacks of that "something", Dogao same. But if they being playing since 2002 who knows how good they could be now.
dont think so . it is called process they started this game with the knowledge of all these year what old experts have learnt. so they started a head of the first experts. if they could have been playing this game since the begining , they will be same as daut or chris not much or less imo. they learned very fast because they got all the recs of old experts but daut and chris ,and the others ofc, have experienced these years , they contributed to the level of gameplay that is used right now. in terms of knowledge old > new but in terms of speed and creativity new > old