Literally no one says top 20 for TWICE is a hit lmfao. AF was top 10 for a couple of weeks but still no one calls it a hit.
The difference between Aespa and Twice is that TWICE never had a flop until Scientist. M&M, FS and ICSM underperformed but are far from flops.
Aespa on other hand are underperforming so early in their career. It's actually funny cause Mys were everywhere last year dragging other groups, were calling them NGG and whatnot + claiming they were the #2 GG.
If you wanna compare, do it between Twice and Aespa's rookie years but of course y'all won't do that.