Very different musical tools available to the Baroque, Classical period and the Romantic composers. Hard to adequately compare them in that light. JMO.
LOL! I was half joking. While I consider Beethoven head and shoulders above every other composer, I understand it’s not fair to compare him with the Baroques or Classicists. Not only were the instruments different, but so were compositional techniques and forms. It would be like comparing Hemingway, Twain, and Boccaccio.