JakeTheBank
Return of the King
I don't see what the big deal about disliking Pym's push as Scientist Supreme is coming from. It certainly doesn't take anything away from Reed and it helped actually develop and further Hank as a character as Bendis basically undid everything progressive about Pym's character with his Skrull reveal during Secret Invasion. Slott and Gage actually give him the respect he deserves.
And Hank was called the "Mage", not the scientist. Reed's motive for science is for the sake of knowledge and learning and exploring new things, hence being the "Explorer". Tony's was described as making things better and developing technology, hence being the "Engineer". And Hank's motive was simply to make the impossible possible, hence why he was dubbed the "Mage." It was his qualities as a scientist and his approach to science which was why Eternity dubbed him such, not for being smarter or dumber than either Reed or Tony.