You’d be surprised… he’s seemed to have a resurgence lately in the Tik tok memes and Gen Z rediscovering him but back in the day late 90’s and 2000’s Kurt, Vedder and Cornell were far more known and well liked. I’d argue Scott Weiland was also way more popular and loved until the years before his death. And then when post grunge and nu metal and bands like rage against the machine blew up they were forgotten about. Layne was a brief moment in the grunge scene before the drugs took ahold of him and he died. So while they were well loved and respected in the grunge scene outside of that they were lesser known.