True, but he had some really good lead hooks.
While I am not a Steely Dan expert from my understanding of the band Becker is a bass player primarily. Steely Dan had lots of great lead players that joined their little pick-up band including Jeff Skunk Baxter (Dooble Brothers), Rick Derringer (The McCoys hang on Sloop, Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo, Edgar Winter), Larry Carlton (his solo in Kid Charlemagne is one of my favorite solos of all time very fluid)
.and others.