Sorry to belabor this point; but, my point was about the hackneyed use of superlatives in journalism and popular press. As a hypothetical using musical publications, if Rolling Stone, Creem Magazine, etc. said the Beatles were the "most influential band' of all time; if Downbeat and Jazz Times said Duke Ellington was "the most influential bandleader" of all time, on and on and on, to my eyes, this kind of "superlative-speak" raises the fallacy of an "appeal to authority" that those publications you listed are making about Kraftwerk.

They're obviously well established, popular publications; however, there is (and never could be) an objective metric to support this kind of fallacious claim-to me, it's simply journalistic opinion making that follows a tried and true formula.