I like you, as you brought me into connection with Cael, so please don't take this the wrong way:
I don't know that you really are the goat, but you're in the running with them: nat, rtcll, stork, special, you. . are all among the greats.
My point is that you got to see demos of the pathfinders, and polished the stone. Beatstick, Bluenose, SuperGrover, had no demos to look at; they had to go into an open server and run around, figuring out what hills would do, and which ones wouldn't.
Edmund Hillary climbed Everest in 1953, and everyone knows it. My ultrarunner friend Killian Jornet, climbed it twice in one day last year, with no oxygen, and only ultrarunners know who he is. Killian is probably the best ultrarunner that has ever lived, but he had stories that those that went before him, maps, and GPS. To say that Killian is a better climber than Hillary is all but laughable.
I'm not diminishing you nor your ability; I'm asking you to consider context. Yes, you did it better than Mr. Wolf, Da Strangler, WarNipple, and the rest. You're not a dumb guy; is it possible that viewing demos and seeing people that went before you was a help? You can bet Killian Jornet would never have capped Everest without it. Just something to consider, my friend.