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Isn't forged much stronger than CNC?

It's a marginal gain which can be swamped by design or material selection. Most of the US CNC boutique makers which sprung up in the early 90s were using 7075 as that's what they had been used to from their aerospace roots. That immediately gave them about 50% extra strength to play with compared with the 6000 series alloys used for most forged bicycle components. Of course, many of them promptly threw that away by using too little material poorly distributed, and some of that can be laid at the door of the limits of their manufacturing process.