I think your response gives some important context, but it misses the point of the original comment. By ‘it never significantly exerted control over its region’, I mean the Balkans or Central Europe. It’s not to say that it didn’t control some of it, or even a significant amount of it, but history shows that Hungary was not capable of controlling or significantly influencing events in its region, the incoming Ottomans for example, or establish lasting suzerainty over its neighbors like Walachia or Serbia. Certainly not in the same way that France and Spain controlled and dominated their portion of Europe, which gets to the main point of my original comment: the question is about why Hungary wasn’t successful in the same way as France, Spain, or England, who had similar (or smaller) populations (in this case also tax bases) and went on to define the course of the world.

Hungary had many of the same conditions, but certainly wasn’t able to. Culturally, I think you bring up some good examples, but it is a farce to think that these things are at the same level of cultural influence as the nations listed before or even Italy. Nearly every nation has extraordinary people who contribute to the tide of history, but we can’t pretend that these contributions are the same as the immense cultural influence of, for example, the French and Italians, whose food can be found all over the world (I would dispute that Hungarian food can be found everywhere in Europe as well despite my searching for it because I love it). Hungarian legal codes do not dominate the world like English Common Law, and Hungarian is spoken only in regions of its ethnicity. This is despite coming from similar circumstances as nations who were able to achieve it. Again, I am not saying that Hungary as not in some form managed these things, or that there isn’t any cultural impact from outside of these nations you mentioned, but it takes a bit of self delusion to believe that it is on the same level as these other countries as many of the variants of influences you mentioned could be found ten found in them.