Accounting for how fast cubing has gotten in the past few years, this makes him better than Feliks
Many cubers who have started cubing post-pandemic only see how Max is dominating right now and has more accomplishments than Feliks, so they think Max is better. However, you are forgetting that Feliks was the one who basically took cubing to new levels. Before he came the WR avg was 10.07, and he had brought it down to 5.53 during his time. He brought 5x5 wr avg from 1:13 to 43, a 30 second difference! Even though not many cubed back then, it was surprising to see someone lower the WR by so much. Also, Max is probably dominating NxN for about 3-4 years because of Covid, not 5, while Feliks has been dominating for 6-7 years. Sure, it was easier back then to get WR's, but not many people back then thought that the 5x5 WR Avg could be Sub-50, considering it was 1:13 at the time, yet Feliks did it. He is a pioneer in cubing, and looking at numbers won't tell you the big picture.
Also, you said that Max was dominating every popular event, but forget than 4-7 aren't that popular. More people do 2x2, pyraminx, and skewb rather than those events. Feliks has done every single WCA event and has very strong results in them.
For those of you who play Geoguessr, here is an analogy. Trevor Rainbolt played the game, popularized it, and brought it to new heights, even though he is not the best player right now.
