Opinion: Small motors more or less consistent than big motors?

It stands to reason, that if ET was the same, the bigger engine would be better. To get the same distance a bigger engine has to fire fewer times; less work, less variation, more consistant.
Pretty simple if you look at it that way.
Talking to some Pro racers a few years ago, and they were telling me that, in order to make a complete 1/4 mile pass, a Top Fuel engine had to fire 853 times, from start to finish. Any more or less had to be decipher, to determine what went wrong.