Hearing that they would be far behind their peers didn't shock any of them. They knew that just the fact that they weren't talented enough to even qualify to enter the immortal sect was a massive disadvantage.
The lack of talent would only compound further because, for immortal cultivators who have joined an immortal sect, the number of resources that would be provided to them was large. There were a lot of rogue immortal cultivators who were held back due to simply not having enough resources.
Yoze thought about Tiki's situation before and after he arrived and allowed her to have better access to resources. At that time, she had only reached the second level of the Nerve Accumulation stage and had spent many years reaching that level.