He's a better wrestler than pretty much everybody you listed other AJ and Harper. And is better on the mic than everybody you named other than Samoa Joe. Hes been literally carrying bum ass Lashley for months.
Kofi is my guy but saying he's better than Lio is laughable. Drew fukking sucks, Joe is carried by his promos and has been a shell of himself in the ring for over a decade now on top of basically being booked like a Samoan Bray Wyatt. AJ is cool but when's the last notable match he had??? The one with Bryan I guess but before that it was months and he ain't topped that since. Velveteen Dream like I said before is diet prince without the natural charisma to back it and was on a streak of shyt matches after that alister cac one before riddle carried his ass at the last takeover
And lio ain't even one of my favorites or anything but to deny the nikkas talent is straight up retarded