I'd go further. Some of the world's best tooling is only usable by the world's best users. Examples abound on this. The best drivers are in vehicles that I would almost certainly crash. Our best pilots are in planes that I literally don't understand the controls on. (That is true for the cars, too, oddly.)
A really good guitar is easy to miss notes on. Precisely because good guitarists don't typically miss.
Now, I think you could reword a little bit. The best performers know their tools very well. So well, that they often "just disappear" for them. This does require some level of quality in the tool. But requires a ton of effort from the performer, too.
As you get better at something you become more opinionated at what you need your tools to do. You demand more specific and tailored things from your tools and so you start to lean towards things that are more adjustable.
There is also the case that once your entire livelihood depends on something, consistency and muscle memory matter a lot. Lots of world-class athletes, drivers, and performers probably use tools that closely resemble the tools they learned and trained with their whole lives so they would probably seem kinda anachronistic to a newcomer.
A really good guitar is easy to miss notes on. Precisely because good guitarists don't typically miss.
Now, I think you could reword a little bit. The best performers know their tools very well. So well, that they often "just disappear" for them. This does require some level of quality in the tool. But requires a ton of effort from the performer, too.