Executor and Profanity

Are you in a fleet shard group, where others respect your climb and payout time? Or do you have to fight to climb? I'm in the former, with Execs at the top of the shard for now. When Profundity comes along it could make my climb to #1 with Exec easier (?) if others have climbed with Prof, and I can still mirror match the Execs to climb slower. I would guess only having Profundity would have the same climb outcome. But if you are fighting to climb, you need to make good use of your attempts, and this is where I see having choice of Exec and Prof will make a difference.