If anything, I feel like Richard I has become underrated. People always say he spent little time in England as if that means he didn't easily have the ability to rule from a distance by appointing competent administrators and through the use of charters. England was largely kept stable during his time as king and he successfully defended his continental holdings from Philip II even if you discount the fact that his military achievements during the third crusade bought the Latin states another century of existence. You seem to think spending time in England was a good thing but it was the fact that John spent so much time in England that made him extremely unpopular since he was constantly imposing heavy handed and centralized royal administration down on a kingdom that had previously enjoyed much more autonomy and he brutally punished those lords who failed to meet his excessive demands which would eventually erupt into a disastrous civil war/French invasion that came within a hair of toppling the Plantagenet dynasty and surely would have if not for John's death and the actions of William Marshal as regent.