Well yes and a lot of this whole thread is pretty absurd because many factors go into perceived speed. For one thing, induction as a technology has an obvious potential for energy to travel faster but that doesn’t mean any given induction stove can put out more heating energy per second than any given gas stove. Some fool here challenged me to post a shootout video of 2 pots of water boiling and I was like, which gas burner do I get to use? The huge 5th one? He was like, show me gas beating induction with the same volume of water, same pot, and I was like sure, I’ll just use an aluminum pot :D Jokes aside, there is no way to set up two “equal” gas and induction burners for a shootout because they are apples and oranges.
Then there is the difference between “time to first useable heat” and “time to boil the whole pot of water.”
Then there is the “speed of use,” and there is a whole subthread here about the awful capacitive touch controls that induction stoves use and how much faster it is to just walk up and turn a gas stove’s knob. Similarly, you will sometimes have an induction stove turn off on you if your pot gets misaligned, which is very easy to do. In that case, you don’t reach “my meal is now cooked” faster, or at all.
Throughout all of this we have people who’ve never been near an induction stove but know some basics about the technology and they are rigidly convinced that they are “right” because physics is on their side. But like I said, the experience of using the damn thing is complex. But people LOVE to be confidently right with the weight of science behind them and machine gun all comers with their certainty. It’s been amusing to watch.