Sure buddy, by accolades Gressier technically had a better year. The statement was "
Cole Hocker is officially the #1 distance runner in the world right now" which factoring the results and fitness of Hocker last year as well as his American record and Millrose Games win this year over a strong field, is a legitimate statement that I agree with.
That being said you're being a disingenuous Hocker hater as usual. Hocker did make the final looking easy, he did however get disqualified afterwards for jostling. Sure, fine, but he was still obviously in good enough shape to win the entire final (and make the final, not sure why that's held against him).
The 1500m field included an injured Josh Kerr, a post prime Jake Whiteman (hasn't had nearly as good of results in the 1500m or 800m as when he was at his best, both in time and competition, yet still got Silver), a way past prime Cheruiyot who hasn't done anything since the Olympics.
Accolades don't matter in a championship race, it's who's most fit at the moment. Niels Laros should have been the one to win, but didn't show his usual fitness that he had across the outdoor season which was unfortunate. So all the heavy hitters did so bad that the way past their primes runners managed to medal/get good results.
That's how watered down it was. The 5000m was solely watered down in terms of Jakob being injured, otherwise there's were many runners who ran in the 12:40s that season as well as the 10000 gold medalist + indoor 3000 world record holder and double Olympic medalist Grant Fisher. All of whom he trounced in a very fast championship race (12:57 I believe).