> Years of experience don’t correlate to output in all careers.

YoE only gives potential, but are not necessarily sufficient in any career. I've interviewed engineers who learned the narrow job they were doing in 6 months, and then only did that for a few years. Do they have 6 months of experience or 3 years? I'd argue closer to 6 months unless they were doing more. I imagine surgeons are similar, where I'd rather see X number of successful surgeries performed than YoE.

This issue with YoE is also why I'm bothered when HR uses YoE too heavily to base salaries around.