We've seen people who are great sorcerers and illusionists but not great duelists or fighters, so being a fantastic sorcerer does not mean you are an all-powerful Force-user overall or necessarily well-rounded.
Sel-Makor stating Baras is greater than Fulminis doesn't mean that much, anyway. Traya, at the end of KotoR II also states that Surik is the greatest of her students, and that certainly does not put her above Revan.
In any case, if we power scale, it's noticeable that Baras is a lot of hype and not so much more. Baras < Wrath < Dooku < Revan < Valkorion < Sidious < Luke [you could maybe swap Dooku and Revan/Valkorion and Sidious, depending on how you rank them].
There are a lot of other powerful individuals that could go between the Wrath and Valkorion which would make them superior to the likes of Baras. He has some accolades, but he needs feats to back it up, and he nearly has none and gets his ass handed to him by someone who is inferior to Dooku or Revan.