americanyerushalmi,
I agree.
I have heard somebody say on the coffee room numerous times that his rebbi didn’t ‘consider’ a chassidishe rebbe a ‘gadol’.
My problem with that is that who is he to decide what he is and isn’t? This rebbi never even met him, he doesn’t know his level of learning, his gadlus, or his impact.
The point needs to be made clear: People aren’t gedolim because they are ‘considered’ gedolim and it goes the other way too. It is whether they actually ARE, not by how others judge them.