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Didn’t they also say the same thing about the speed of light? Frankly it’s whatever the writers decide meets their plot points.
Probably. I'm just going by the officially published technical manuals that go over the in-universe physics in detail.
Warp 10 represents going infinitely fast. It's not a speed limit in the usual sense, as you can always keep going faster than you were before. It's an exponential scale. The jump from 9.9 to 9.99 is a bigger difference in speed than the jump from 9.8 to 9.9. while the change in warp factor gets smaller with higher numbers, it actually represents a larger difference in speed. Always chasing, but never reaching, warp 10.
It's a hard thing to convey to the audience watching the show, so I think they sometimes abandon it in favor of linear speed when they want to stress high speeds without confusing people.