yet was always more impactful based on rating.
Don't take statistics 100% serious without looking at context, specially rating. Leo was indeed the best player in the world to me on Fnatic, and he can and should also be on the GOAT conversation. But his impact on the team was not much bigger than Chronicle, if anything, it was pretty similar.
You can think that Chronicle is not the GOAT, and that's fair, because i don't think he is either. But i do think it's also fair to anyone else think he is, and that he undeniably should be in the conversation
I can't just ignore missing out on an entire year of high level competition
While i understand your point, i think you can't just ignore historical context either. Like i said, looking just at data without considering the context is misleading. Dude was getting sabotaged by the world, of course he "fell off" for a while. It shouldn't be a definitive factor