Good grief. The ONLY useful or accurate thing you said here was that last line, and it’s a huge point. You were comparing underpowered Lever loads to probably normal to max Varget loads.
Lever might act similar at low pressure, but that is all. Beyond that Lever is very different from Varget, which you’d know if you’d done some load workups and found max. Like I said, max loads for Varget are approximately starting loads for Lever.
For example with a 77gr Sierra in 5.56, Lever can normally hit around 2850 fps in a 16” and 2950 in a 20” safely with good brass life using LC. Varget can’t do anywhere close to that, because they’re not at all similar. Also here’s a small detail- those are compressed loads near or at max. Take Varget to max and see the difference.
It’s foolish to say powders are similar (or worse, that “Lever is basically a ball powder version of Varget”) based on a burn rate chart. Burn rate is not a constant (why do you think different burn rate charts disagree) and there’s more going on than just order in a list. These two powders perform very differently in full power loads, and you didn’t compare full power loads in each powder. You’ve completely ignored details like temp stability and density, and how they behave when pressures approach max.
If you want to say Lever is similar to something, that powder is CFE223. They still are not the same, but CFE223 is closer to Lever than anything else available to us. Varget has no similarities to either one.