It was always surprising to me that he's never made music at a really high level.
Also. I literally hate hearing uninformed white people talk about Hip Hop. It gets under my skin.
So Far Gone and Take Care are extremely good. He's very consistent, but he's not made a GKMC or TPAB, that's why he's not better than Kendrick but he's still #2. It gets harder to make something substantial and unique with time. In the 80s nearly every other album was a classic even some with their nursery ass rhymes, now you've got to be out of this world like Kanye and Kendrick. The only ones to drop real classics in the past 10 years. That doesn't mean that the other dudes are not dope though, it's just a harder task.
Obviously there's a lot more haters today too, just look at Drakes haters on this site who follow him closer than they follow anyone else. Yet they claim they don't like him, but dissect all his bars, first in line to his concerts and download his albums before his stans. I don't know if shyt like that went on back in the days, it's as if the Internet lets these psychotic fukks operate without being held accountable for how sick they actually are. So even if the unbiased population (reviewers, other rappers etc) says that Drakes shyt is on another level, will still have the circle of fakkits dikkriding each other on places like the coli acting like the love isn't real.