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It seems that people have a misconseption of the Goku Black arc powerscaling, so I'll just go ahead and shut that down.
Vegeta's SSJ2 form did not surpass his SSJB self in terms of power, that's just lack of understanding on how SSJB worked at the time.
As opposed to the anime version, the manga version establishes that SSJB suffers from SEVERE stamina issues, with Vegeta losing more than 90% of his power by just throwing a single, heavily holding-back punch in his fight against Cabba, to the point SSJG Goku was doing severely better than SSJB Vegeta.
This is why Goku never relied in SSJB vs Hit and delayed it, and only struck using SSJB momentarily at the very last moment before the impact.
Against Black, Vegeta had not learned this short-coming yet, and used SSJB for simple things like crossing large distances and flight, despite Blue being established to get massively nerfed after just as much as a singular punch. This means that he's no longer at maximum capacity when he reaches Black, and is in fact SEVERELY weaker than even his own SSJG state.
During their rematch, Vegeta learned this lesson, and only used SSJB for a split-second so small that even Black couldn't percieve it despite his speed, in order to save up as much SSJB power as possible.
The whole point of Mastered SSJB is Goku being able to maintain Blue at 100% power, which allowed him to fight Merged Zamasu.
So it's less that SSJ2 Vegeta surpassed SSJB Vegeta, and more that back then in the manga SSJB was so bad of a form that it massively nerfed it's users much below even SSJG levels of power, hence Goku chose to fight in that weaker SSJG form than just go Blue. It's not until Merged Zamasu that we saw what a SSJB without stamina issues can do.
Also, Golden Freeza isn't a debunk to that, as Freeza had even more severe stamina issues than SSJB. It'd simply mean he too was getting massively weaker at the same or greater rate. Hit also isn't a debunk, as he verbatim can't maintain his full-power for more than even a single time-skip by his own words. Back then the manga wanted to put more emphasis on stamina and how the characters get around that issue than raw power, hence it gave SSJB such a major weakness. The initial solution was to use it for no more than a split-second to hit the enemy with as much power as possible. The solution Goku found was trapping his Ki in his body vs Merged Zamasu so that he doesn't lose his power.
Vegeta's SSJ2 form did not surpass his SSJB self in terms of power, that's just lack of understanding on how SSJB worked at the time.
As opposed to the anime version, the manga version establishes that SSJB suffers from SEVERE stamina issues, with Vegeta losing more than 90% of his power by just throwing a single, heavily holding-back punch in his fight against Cabba, to the point SSJG Goku was doing severely better than SSJB Vegeta.
This is why Goku never relied in SSJB vs Hit and delayed it, and only struck using SSJB momentarily at the very last moment before the impact.
Against Black, Vegeta had not learned this short-coming yet, and used SSJB for simple things like crossing large distances and flight, despite Blue being established to get massively nerfed after just as much as a singular punch. This means that he's no longer at maximum capacity when he reaches Black, and is in fact SEVERELY weaker than even his own SSJG state.
During their rematch, Vegeta learned this lesson, and only used SSJB for a split-second so small that even Black couldn't percieve it despite his speed, in order to save up as much SSJB power as possible.
The whole point of Mastered SSJB is Goku being able to maintain Blue at 100% power, which allowed him to fight Merged Zamasu.
So it's less that SSJ2 Vegeta surpassed SSJB Vegeta, and more that back then in the manga SSJB was so bad of a form that it massively nerfed it's users much below even SSJG levels of power, hence Goku chose to fight in that weaker SSJG form than just go Blue. It's not until Merged Zamasu that we saw what a SSJB without stamina issues can do.
Also, Golden Freeza isn't a debunk to that, as Freeza had even more severe stamina issues than SSJB. It'd simply mean he too was getting massively weaker at the same or greater rate. Hit also isn't a debunk, as he verbatim can't maintain his full-power for more than even a single time-skip by his own words. Back then the manga wanted to put more emphasis on stamina and how the characters get around that issue than raw power, hence it gave SSJB such a major weakness. The initial solution was to use it for no more than a split-second to hit the enemy with as much power as possible. The solution Goku found was trapping his Ki in his body vs Merged Zamasu so that he doesn't lose his power.
