It's like when you were in high school, hanging out with your friends and tooling around in your parents' jalopy.

Much later, Richardson (1963) posits a theory very similar to Jespersen’s, claiming that the [grammatical] system of Mauritian has resulted from the contact of very different systems (French, Malagasy, and Bantu), which allegedly could not merge together because of excessive heterogeneity, but neutralized each other instead.

[…] God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary agent, intending before-hand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.

Since one of the disadvantages of being a hidden champion is that by striving to remain understated and hidden from the public and, more importantly, large global competitors, the champion also remains somewhat hidden from highly skilled employees and university graduates as a potential employer.