The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum elected its first class in 1936, but it wasn’t until this January–83 years later—that someone (New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera) was voted in unanimously.
That means there were voters who believed the likes of Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, among others (that’s enough baseball names for a soccer column), weren’t worthy of enshrinement. It takes all kinds. Different strokes for different folks, etc. There are people who think the Earth is flat. Consensus is nearly always elusive.
That’s especially the case in American soccer, where there’s next to no clarity and everything’s an argument.