This is for Darkhorse, btw. We once had a conversation about speed deads versus cleans and the like for helping the deadlift. He was all about speed deads and I was on the fence. This was before I really got speed deads rotated into my training regularly. '
I was blueskying it about power and all that and he basically pointed out that the math didn't mean much to him. Well....he was right. I'll take speed deads over cleans and such for improving the dead anyday
I love doing snatches and jerks and sometimes cleans and high pulls. But they are not the same as a deadlift. They just aren't.
Definitely beginners and intermediates should probalby be deadlifting (health allowing) for a while. Most beginners find deadlifting "easy" when they first do them
And they should be able to experiment and learn what works best for them and how much of it. It is funny how much a deadlift takes out of you as opposed to a "similar" movement.