But a goat is the greatest by definition.
There can’t exist a “my goat is goater than your goat” situation, logically.

The first thing forcing an option does, is depriving that option the ability to know what it could achieve on pure merit.

this is the future

This is not necessarily wrong. This is a potential future of sorts.

But, as always, the usual implicit “future = good” is assumed by all involved.

One shall neither subscribe to progressive optimism when it comes to the future, nor expect the future to have a Whiggish outlook about us.