How does that justify a win? It's like saying that X guy beats Y guy because he made a nicer bathroom. The World Forger should be roughly as powerful as his brothers, and one of them was roughly as powerful as Darkseid. Shouldn't we begin there, or what do you think?
Black Winter was a Universe killer though. Kind of hard to be 100% certain when it comes to the actual power levels in play. It's actually nearly impossible to know how powerful either are. World Forger didn't show omnipotence. Neither did.
Just retconned into not being a mutant. He wanted to be special, and his powers transmuted his genetic code to carry the X-gene. He was never a mutant.
Not quite the same thing. The Surfer and the rest of the Heralds were purposely imbued with a tiny portion of his might. They all have enough appearances for us to know exactly how powerful they all are (Which includes Galactus to a degree).
What powerhouse did Barbatos fight to get a solid comparison? What powerhouse did World Forger fight in order to give us a solid weight class? Darkseid seems to be the level that he's at if we compare him to his brothers. Not trying to split hairs, but neither of those guys seem capable of waving their hands across the sky and making a universe that they did not create disappear.
Maybe World Forger does stomp, but using a hammer to create a multivrse isn't a battle feat. I don't think that it's unreasonable to question his power level when it comes to actual combat.
In the end, I've been left with the feeling that he simply doesn't have enough in the way of combat showings to place him in the position that many have, and it just seems like a lot of hype surrounds him.
Well he has created literally every universe in the multiverse, so what do you want him to do? Go outside the multiverse to fight someone?
No, that's simply dumb. Comic writers don't tend to think of "combat feats".
The comic literally says he is among the four most powerful beings in the whole multiverse, he creates hypertime, every universe in the multiverse and a second multiverse and you think that's just hype? Dude, most abstracts in marvel would kill for that kind of feats in so little time.
But sure, let's talk about Eternity's combat feats. That's above Black Winter, right?