Novak is the GOAT and there’s no debate. This coming from a Fed fan and not a Djokovic guy at all (his game is too robotic for me).
Federer is the most gifted and most fun player to watch when playing at his peak.
Nadal is the GOAT on clay and the fiercest competitor I may have ever seen next to Michael Jordan.
But Djokovic has the best technique from both wings, the best return game and best all-court game.
The one thing I will never accept no matter who it’s against is any BS about “weak eras” and such. People used to knock Federer for getting so many of his slams in a “weak era” but you never hear anything about the last few years of slams for Nadal or Djokovic. This current crop is no different (and I would argue worse than Federer’s early years). But I don’t but into that for either end. You play who you play and I happen to prescribe to those Big 3 being so damn good that’s why others don’t appear to be as good.
I agree with lots of your stuff, but not the last paragraph.
You can't really argue the fact that most of the titles Nadal/Novak won happened during the big 3 era, but most of the Roger's titles were prior to Nadal/Novak getting established? To me the level of competition increased a level when Nadal/Novak showed up, so that's why I put more weight on winning titles during that time. And this is before new crop of players came up. So now you could argue that any new slams that Novak wins will be on par with early Roger slams. Statistically, head to head, at their peaks or close to it, Nadal/Novak > Roger.
We talked about this before I think, and we'll keep continue to disagree