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An average is not a maximum. When someone says bitcoin "only" does 7 tps they are wrong because it does a lot more than that on a daily basis. It is like saying a pool is only 7 feet deep when that's only an average and the deep end is 13. The word "only" (and its synonyms) is what makes the difference.
According to Clark Moody's dashboard, the rate over the past 30 days has been:
[ 6.3 tps ]
So 7 does not seem like a myth at all, it seems totally accurate.