Why Beatty's battlecruiser command was not a double promotion

Was Beatty promoted over more senior admirals to command the battlecruisers in 1914?

The claim is overstated because the battlecruiser force was then a subordinate reconnaissance command and many supposedly bypassed officers held senior posts elsewhere.

Beatty used political skill and the command's glamorous image to enlarge its public importance. Several officers portrayed as having been leapfrogged actually held more senior appointments or were unsuitable for sea command. The appointment was therefore unlike Mountbatten's much more unusual advancement.