I still think Daniel Craig is the best Bond. But yes, OHMSS is the best story. Second best is “For Your Eyes Only” (Bond battles a crook for Cold War technology.) Realistic, no gadgets except for Roger Moore’s humor.
For Your Eyes Only has that creepiness factor with Moore’s romantic dalliance with a skater who could have been his granddaughter.
>>>Realistic, no gadgets except for Roger Moore’s humor.
As Fleming wrote the character, Bond was not a superman, and not a clown. Just a man of ordinary pleasantly homely appearance, well educated and trained, but mainly a man who just refuses to give up. Musician/actor Hogey Carmichael was the model for Bond’s looks. In one of the early novels Bond expresses annoyance at people mistaking him for the celebrity as anonymity is essential to his work.
Up until Daniel Craig I always argued that Lazenby’s Bond wasn’t perfect, but still caught the character much more closely then anybody before or after. I enjoyed Connery but that was Robospy, not Bond.
As to Moore, in one novel Fleming has an aside that Bond on his own time is writing a book he hopes the department would adopt as a training guide. I can’t imagine Roger Moore’s Bond even being able to read a textbook, much less write one.