I think you misunderstood me lol. But it's fine, that's no grand argument in Gojo vs Sukuna lol.
I've given the outline of my reasoning above and I believe it's pretty fair. As I said, had the statement been the current strongest, currently the strongest, had we not seen and gotten to know how full power Sukuna looks like and how powerful he is, I would have admitted that there is a basis to argue around it. However, since all of those things did not happen I can't. Plus couple that with what I said later down the line that Gege created Gojo to be the strongest character I believe it's pretty straightforward. These are the statements from the author. These are not in-story statements made by the characters so that we can argue their validity, these come from the author's mouth directly, outside of the story. They are literally word of God. We can like them or dislike them but we cannot argue against them. Like if tomorrow Gege decides to say that Sukuna is stronger than Gojo in an interview no matter how much I dislike it I would have to accept it.
I was addressing your argument that Gojo's hype doesn't come from the author lol. This is directly from the author. He is telling us that Gojo is literally too strong for the plot. Moreover, this is the plot that involves the Heian era curses and curse users as well as a powered up version of a curse user from that time, Kenjaku. This is legit Gege telling us the Heain era is walk in the park for Gojo.
The thing here is that we know by Gege's own admission that prison realm is literally a plot device to remove Gojo from the plot due to his strength. It would be like arguing Sukuna is weak since he can't take over a human, when we know that Yuji being his vessel is a plot point.
Aight. And yes they do. Gege's vision of Gojo is being the strongest character he created. As such, when discussing matchups Gojo always gets the benefit of the doubt.
I've said it before, but the argument that Sukuna is the final villain and if Gojo is stronger Sukuna cannot be a threat doesn't hold much. Firstly, I think it's obvious that whoever one believes is stronger, is only stronger by a small margin. Neither is gonna just drop the other like a fly. Sukuna can be a credible threat even while being weaker than Gojo, and can win against Gojo in the story even if he is weaker than Gojo. Firstly, Gojo functions best when he is alone, literally stated in the manga. Others are a hindrance to him. The battle between two of the strongest characters in the manga would wipe out entire cities if not much more. While Sukuna can afford to do so and doesn't care Gojo is different. Gojo having to fight while trying to protect the people and the city etc is a credible way of showing that Gojo is stronger but he would lose the battle. Secondly, Sukuna is located and is taking over the body of one of Gojo's students. Gojo deeply cares for Yuji. It's a question if he could bring himself to seriously harm Yuji. Then the thing with Sukuna and Megumi. Sukuna could take advantage of Megumi somehow. See there are ways for Sukuna to win the battle against Gojo in the story if it happens but still be weaker. But in an arena setting Gojo would win.
What I am saying here is that first Sukuna says cursed spirits wouldn't know, implying there are other beings that would. That leaves humans.
Secondly a thing being documented does not mean everyone would have access to it. But Gojo with his position in the society, the strongest guy, the head of the strongest clan, etc, is definitely one of the most likely people to know about it.
Thirdly, as I said above, Tengen is someone who has been around for 1200+ years. He has witnessed the Heian era. He definitely knows about it, and Gojo works with him. And like I said Gege says it's possible they don't know about the flames. He doesn't say they don't know, because there might be people that do, and as Sukuna says cursed spirits don't know but he believes others do.
Anyway, even if we take that away, we still come back to the fact that Gege says Gojo is the strongest character multiple times. That is an insurmountable piece of evidence.
I hope you get what I am saying lol. For me it's impossible to come to a conclusion that Sukuna wins. Like yeah something might change in the future, etc, but now Gojo being the winner of this fight, Gojo vs Full Power Sukuna, is the only logical conclusion, for me, looking at everything presented and everything the author stated.
I took the time to answer seriously lol, since you just caught up and are probably itching to talk about these things, but as you've probably noticed I've lost the desire to powerscale lmao. That's why you don't see me in OP arena threads anymore, nor here actually arguing. The only series I've been powerscaling recently is ROR, and that's because we just got a section for it lol, so it's kinda something new to talk about.
Like I said earlier we can agree to disagree, I probably won't spend much time making a new post lol, I kinda lost the will for it. And as I said, it's impossible for me to see an argument based on everything presented that Gojo loses. Plus I got a midterm in the morning lmao.