This feels like an odd question. What’s the point of mastering anything if someone else also will? That’s what this logic sounds like. All mechanics you learn and all forms of positioning and ball control are tools to be leveraged. You get good with them and decide when to leverage them. Sometimes you go back and forth to keep your opponent on their toes. In either case, yeah as you grow so do your opponents. You’re waiting to expose and exploit a mistake on the opponent’s end.