To make it a little more confusing, olympic weightlifting's lifts are more powerful (think watts--energy over time--explosiveness) than the three power lifts.
But I'm just too afraid of getting injured; chance of injury is so much higher when lifting explosively vs. lifting heavy. :(
The older I get, the more I want to be a 'jack of all trades, master of none' in terms of fitness, but that's just a personal bias. I don't have the patience or the motivation to ever learn how to do a snatch or squat clean properly, but I see the appeal.
Just because you know how to do something correctly doesn't mean you always will. I personally believe the combination of speed and weight makes olympic lifts inherently dangerous.
Most sports have a lot of survivorship bias. It looks like people can do them forever because a lot of other people have dropped out.
The impulse from the first 0.5s of my clean & jerk is significantly higher than the first 0.5s of me grinding out a heavy deadlift rep
Powerlifters will definately bench press more because weightlifters don't bench.
When comparing the squat - powerlifters perform a low bar squat and hence you cannot compare it to the high bar squat the weightlifters do. I think weightlifters have much more powerful legs though - when you compare across the same lifts.
Weightlifters dont specialize in the deadlift however it is a part of their training and I think weightlifters will out deadlift powerlifters if they focus on it.