It doesn't matter what he cares about. People would still give him that praise regardless.
Quote the manga with pure swordsman, otherwise don't use the term. It's fanfiction. Shanks is a swordsman. He fights using a sword, rivaled the WSS, this isn't difficult.
Well he pulled out a sword to block Akainu's attack and clashed with Whitebeard with it and had many legendary duels with Mihawk. So, yeah, it's safe to say he uses his sword to fight.
Why did Oda have Big Mom clowned repeatedly by characters abysmally below Oven's level? Vista is a dead meme.
Non-arguments won't get responses Macho. We know absolutely shitall about Roger's era, to the point where we're still fickle on Kaido's age as he's a contemporary to Linlin but of Shanks' generation of piracy somehow. For all we know, Roger could've been. But people know him by his grandest title.