I bet your coworkers loved having some smug asshole barging in and shitting on their skills unprovoked while they were trying to have a conversation about gear.
Tools are rarely a problem. The person using the tool is more often the problem.
This is the equivalent of someone wondering if they should the latest MacBook or the latest Surface to do some very basic sysadmin.
It doesn't matter!
Said otherwise, with total result as the sum of contributing factors like tools_factor + skill_factor + luck_factor + …, the partial derivative of tool is not significant.
Maybe the conversion was not about achieving or improving a task, but idle talk for social purposes?
Anything can be meaningless if you axiomatically don't care about it.
Personally, I find no value in that, but I respect differences of tastes.