Many photographers, including some regarded as the best portrait photographers working today, take photos by running the motor drive, generating up to 10 images a second, doing so in bursts through photoshoots that can last 30 minutes to hours, in the end only choosing one photo of thousands to present as the result of that session.

You’d have a hard time convincing me that a subjectively equivalent image that is the product of a shoot where the shutter is pressed less often is the work of a ‘better’ photographer. The number of images rejected from an edit just isn’t a factor in the quality of a photographer’s output.