I would agree that ND are/have been superior to Insomniac this gen but I dont think it has anything to do with ND transitioning well or the other stuff you mentioned. If you compare both developers 1st game - Resistance for Insomniac and Uncharted for ND, I would put the quality of both at about the same. Both which scored about 80-90. However if you looked at their second efforts the quality is totally different. ND saw whats wrong with Uncharted and improved UC to such an extent with the graphics/gameplay/story to such an extent that it won GotY AND gave ND a huge reputation as one of the top devs. Resistance 2 on the other hand was considered inferior to Resistance as the changes they made to try and improve the game were almost universally disliked by a number of people and while they tried to rectify this with R3 (which imo was the best game) it was too little too late.
Putting it simply, I do think ND are more talented but not according to your reasons.
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