There's no picking and choosing on my end, I am telling you what I believe with a gun to my head. The truth is Roger not having a black blade was actually the real death of the WSS agenda, Xebec would have been another option but Oda refused here too. You can't convince me Mihawk is > Roger or Xebec, it's too much of an uphill battle based on the way Oda treats the two parties. I'm all for Mihawk being close though, but black blade does not place him above those guys. This gives Shanks an out as well as he can just be lumped in with the Roger kind.
Well there might be some hope like I said, Mihawk has the most impressive active bounty atm, which means a lot. But I’m not about to gaslight myself into thinking Mihawk is stronger than characters Oda has never actually portrayed him to be above, he's just not portraying Xebec and Roger the way Mihawk was portrayed in MF that's just reality...I waited for the resurgence in post skip, but the trend continued for the most part. Not worth it for a children's comic at the end of the day. It's all fun and games in debates but I can't back what I don't believe.