It's not a good scenario because it's not my position at all, so I am not going to address a question that is not my position. Further, you are providing in implausible scenario to try and prove your point. No on here is saying that you don't need to train.
Yes, drugs are the most important factor, but not the only factor. However, they are the priority for any IFBB pro.
And the study on the previous page strongly suggest that drugs are more important than training.
Ah, you've done this before. Providing a hypothetical, though it cannot be recreated in real life, in no way invalidates the point being argued. I don't have to actually go through the process of starving my myself or gorging myself to extrapolate the effect it will have.
We absolutely can make a reasonable prediction of what will happen if someone trains for a year naturally versus someone who takes drugs but is sedentary. I chose virtual clones to completely rule out any other factors or variations stemming from genetic predispositions but it wasn't necessary. I can just as easily compare me to Coach, who is vastly superior to me genetically but if he sat around on his ass for a year on gear whereas I trained hard naturally for a year I would be and look in better shape than he would.
As mentioned before, and subsequently ignored, the study quoted was done on previously untrained individuals. Virtually anything a neophyte does will yield results. Do you really think that a person will keep putting on muscle after about three months on drugs continue to gain muscle? You have no experience with steroids so you are not aware of the fact that your gains slow down considerably, or stop altogether, even when you are training and eating like a hardcore bber. That when you have to move on to insulin and HGH.
You don't want to answer a simple direct question because you think it might undermine your claims about drugs being "the most important" factor in muscle hypertrophy. This suggests that you are more concerned with promoting an agenda than seeking the truth.
I'll answer the question for you with an answer you will be unable to make an argument to
rationally dispute: of course, a person will be in much better shape and look better who trained naturally versus someone who just took drugs but lived the typical sedentary life of the average American.