Is that it spawned what makes up like... Half of modern reality tv. The Competition Reality Show where you get a bunch of different guys who are really good at what they do and have them compete can very much be traced back to Iron Chef, even though they evolved over time. Every food network star, ever British bakeoff, every forged in fire, every weird Netflix glass blowing thing, they all started there...

AND IT'S STILL COOLER THEN ANY SINGLE ONE OF THEM

bakeoff doesn't have a loud man chomping on a bell pepper and telling you what you gotta cook with so who's to say which is better