No agenda just facts, WSS title is simplistic in it's nature especially within the context of a shounen manga, and Mihawk's motives are easy to explain as well as Oda's decisions in regards to him. I've been bodying baboons for years over this. People that slander this characters are either just gay for shanks, or are fangirls of buggy.
I have never tried to inflate Mihawk to be more important than he is in terms of narrative, I just like the concept of someone being the Strongest in the World, which was garnered through reputation and world renown, similar to Whitebeard, and the fact that it is indeed true. A symbol of absolute strength, that is to be surpassed by Zoro eventually.
The slander of this character is extremely forced, I saw Jay D's recent video on Mihawk, and then I made a comment which he obviously dodged because I made the comment very early after he posted it, even Brago thought crocodile actually clashed equally with Mihawk when that was anime only. A lot of the community is unknowledgeable when it comes to this particular matter, even if you want to say they are knowledgeable in other aspects.
He has the best swordsmanship in the world, and top tier haki to drive it, as well as other top tier attributes. His black blade marks the pinnacle of swordsmanship. If someone slanders him and says he didn't make it, that means a black blade that existed as the strongest blade in existence during Rogers era, did not choose any of those guys and think them suitable/worthy for it, Shiki, Big mom, Xebec, any marine since they're all trained to use swords, Rayleigh etc, because we know a sword chooses it's user. As well as this a swordsman has to bend the sword to it's will to earn the right to wield it, which Mihawk has clearly done.
Mihawk's bounty reveal saying he has superior swordsmanship to shanks would be like if they showed WB's bounty and said "He has even more destructive capability than Roger!" which is true because of the quake fruit, which I think largely contributes to Whitebeards WSM title. Even if WB and Roger are equal, WB's fruit gives him a capability to do something Roger can't, in the same vein Shanks doesn't have the same capability as Mihawk, Blow for blow Mihawk is better at fighting with a sword, that's not debatable, this makes it so that Zoro's dream is not invalid.
Regardless if Oda wants Shanks to have the strongest haki in the world. And we know that Joyboy's haki which is relative to Shanks haki, can knock out VA's, cool, but it's not putting out top tiers. And GB despite being tazed by Shanks said he didn't want to fight while being jumped, but he wants to fight later, showing he's still not afraid of shanks just because he has strong haki.
And so you have someone like Mihawk, who doesn't even rely on a DF to fight, similar to shanks, and unless you think shanks tazes the Worlds strongest swordsman to oblivion before he can do anything, then shanks would be hard pressed to even land something on Mihawk with CoC, he'd have to get past Mihawks guard, and Mihawk is better than him in close combat. So no even if shanks tards want to slander Mihawks haki, which would be stupid to do in the first place, it's not a good argument.
Topped off with Oda literally insinuated WB, Shanks and Mihawk would have a 1v1v1, bearing their weighty ideals against eachother. And oda making his own personal commentary at one point, calling Shanks vs Mihawk the dream matchup. I can understand if people are slandering Mihawk for his inaction, but what is he going to do, when he doesn't have any political ambition, besides wait for someone to challenge him, Oda already said he's tired of life. So in this case only now is he being pushed into this race to the One Piece via affiliation with Buggy.