alt Hacker NewsPremiere is in the unique position of being the oldest video editing suite on the market - the first version was released in 1991! Much as with Photoshop, this sort of automatically makes it the gold standard.
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It used to be the "gold standard" but a while ago just about everything else ate its lunch.
Resolve has an amazing free-as-in-beer version and the fully paid for one is currently £225 - and that's it, you've bought it, no subscription. Adobe biffed that one.
For VFX you've got a separate app, Adobe After Effects, which was absolutely amazing, but Resolve uses a node-based VFX chain rather than AE's Photoshop-like layers. Now okay, if you're used to AE and layers then nodes are a steepish learning curve - but if you're already using Blender or Unreal Engine (and lots of VFX folk are) then it's a nice simple jump.
Resolve's training material is way better than Premiere's, too.
Even if they were the oldest NLE, that does not automatically make them “the gold standard.”
Avid/1 was released in 1989. And there were others before it, although I think often on more proprietary or niche hardware (Avid/1 was Mac already).
Things like that: https://www.lucasfilm.com/news/lucasfilm-originals-the-editd...
I think Media Composer always had a lead in feature film / TV. It's possible Premiere Pro had a lead in other markets.