while googling for opinions and suggestions on Beethoven piano sonata cycles, came across this user on another classical forum (good-music-guide.com) who seemed to be highly respected as the community's go-to expect on, well, Beethoven piano sonata cycles, and this is his tier list, at least the top four tiers (there's a couple more under pic)

not sure how to direct link posts there but it's on this page if you wanna see the lower tiers and cycles he doesn't like
https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?topic=2302.4600

anyway, thoughts?