See this is where yall confuse yourself. Do you take statements/potrayal or do you take feats. We seen that Mihawk is WSS stated in Marineford, by Zoro and title card's. Are you saying thats false. If so then we got to go through 900 chapters and i could puck and chose whats false
it's Oda game for keeping fandom alive
one piece is about " point of view Vs reality"
some times world point of view is reality and sometimes a lie ... we can never know ...
I'm not sure about others ... but for me ...
I try to separate my point of view form what manga told us so far .. like with Shanks and Kaido
I think Shanks is stronger
but I accept Kaido have better claim
and in terms of feats or statements .... I think for people in same level : clear statements and feat > expected statements and feat
but again meaning of clear can be unclear .... cause to me WSS is unclear ... cause we don't know how it can be earn and what it prove and to you it means a clear statement ... and I think both of us right .... cause both of us have point of view not reality
it's not an easy thing to do ...
but I guess at least ... Kaido > Shanks or Mihawk .... is much easier thing to clarify ... cause he both have clear feats and unclear great (best) statements ... at least better than both of them
and only more screen time can change that