i always feel like prog fans rate songs on how much good stuff there is, not how consistent songs are
people are like "OMG THIS 15 MINUTE SONG IS SO GOOD" and i'm like "yeah it has more than 3 minutes of good stuff, but there's a lot that feels like filler to me and Icarus Lives is just consistently amazing from start to finish, not a single weak moment, so it's the better song"