the top 10 is available to look at. I like Rory a lot. The RS list has famous people on it. And no one since the 1970s.
You’d think there’d be better guitarists in the last 35 years, but I really can’t argue this list too much.
ImoFWIW - Guys like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani are technically far superior to Hendrix. And I like their work far more. Hendrix was sloppy as hell. But that sloppiness was part of the ‘groove’ he had that none have ever approached. Groove/feeling/call it what you will.
I think his influence speaks for itself and the fact that all the ‘greats’ namecheck him without prompting leads me to think that that influence is quite real. But Hendrix ain’t my thing. Vai is.