Warning(?): This became way wordier than I intended and I'm very sorry to anyone who makes the long journey through it. The sad thing is, this is only half of what I had intended to type. Human strength potential is one of my favorite conversation topics. Again, I'm very sorry.

I can see that, maybe. I just don't think we've hit the level at which we NEED to use steroids yet, atleast when it comes to strength. Looking at old school examples, like Hackenschmidt or Maxick, the level of strength they had, despite any short comings or lack of current scientific knowledge, indicates, to me atleast, that we can achieve more physically than what we've seen so far.

The rep ranges, for example, weren't really made concrete until maybe the 1950s, iirc, some 50 to 60 years after many of these guys had been in relatively fit condition. And even in recent years, we've found that longer rests between sets may potentially increase size and strength gains, meaning that, combined with rep ranges and decent nutrition, people like Hack and Max could've attained their biggest physiques at an earlier stage than they did originally.

Think about it this way. Maxick popularized maxalding, basically a rediscovery of isometrics, and used it to attain (for his height and weight) near superhuman strength, at least for his over head press. He was below average height for the time and sickly when he was a child, hardly what comes to mind when a person thinks of a strength athlete. He likely wasn't above a 23 ffmi, meaning he could've gotten bigger and, as a result, stronger. His overhead was 322-ish pounds at 147lbs himself, but we'll call it 310 just incase that lift was a one off thing. According to the site StrengthLevel, at his weight his elite level lift would've been 202lbs, meaning he was around 53.47% stronger than he was supposed to be, and he still had more potential mass to gain.

If we applied that to the average elite lifter on that site, at 248lbs overhead, that would mean, assuming their average overall, a 5'9.5" amab lifter under 200lbs should be able to attain a 380.6 lbs overhead. And that's before considering the fact he had less mass on him than he could have, which would mean potentially as much as a 65%, give or take, increase in strength could be possible. Which would make the average amab lifter able to overhead 409.2lbs. This is all hypothetical, of course, but it would atleast imply that humans have the potential to push themselves further while steroid free than we currently believe.