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I think when discussing whether wider tires are faster, it makes sense to discuss the measured width. That captures the shift in the peloton. It also captures the shift in comfort. To say a tire is 23 that measured 27 would indicate that there hadn’t been a change that is well documented from the days of racers running undersized 23s.
I’ve had enough variance between brands and between models within brands to feel that it’s really not useful to invoke reference rim width because that only attends to a part of the variance. It’s a bit like discussing nba player heights before they tried to standardize measurements or looking at weights on drivers licenses for a study on bmi.
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