Prepare to be shocked. I have no use for Bob Segar or Bruce Springsteen, two icons of the 1970s who I would both put far behind the Beatles for consistency of albums.
Lester Bangs nailed Segar's music in an article that was reprinted in his posthumous book.
Your dislike of Springsteen and Seger neither shocks me nor concerns the matter we're discussing. (I didn't mention Springsteen anyway). My point, which you didn't come close to refuting, is that there was a helluva lot of great rock and roll in the 1970s.