I think you misunderstood. I wasn’t talking about guitar ability. I was talking about song creation. He wasn’t as good as Page and Clapton in that way. I even read an interview with him many years ago, where he basically said the same thing about that. He seemed like a very nice guy.
Fair enough. You are correct He wasn’t that much of a “song” writer. He wrote music but songs not so much. Two very different things. Which is why the biggest praises is coming from musicians