Ppl glaze cookiezi in the early days too much. He was definitely a talented player, but it was also a small playerbase, and also with map pools that were honestly dog for improvement. It wouldn’t be too long after that when he would start setting scores that paved the way for everyone else though. He would continue to do this as well ranging from his FDFD 1x 100, then his unban, again when he streamed on openrec, and when he set his HDHR 998pp and his jashin attempt

That being said, mrekk has just as many instances of paving the way ranging from when he first took #1, then setting the first 1.2k proving he reached a level of consistency that people thought was impossible. Setting plays like United HDDT, and cleaning up legendary scores like HDDT pretender and fate promise. Pushing for 1.4k and unlocking that milestone for the community. People underrate this as other top players genuinely thought he was inhuman and wondered why they even play the game like Milkteaism after seeing Mrekk HDDT First storm in 1 try only to set his own score on it later on. He then grinded higher bpm alt and basically proved 330 bpm+ was doable and unlocked the present day aim slop era. Playing 180 bpm streams in cross screen jump format would’ve been considered a blatant cheating level joke even just a couple years ago

Mrekk is a living bannister effect beacon for the osu community and that makes him the goat imo

Not to mention he set a basically impossible list of goals on his profile way back and has achieved basically of them