You said it loud and clear, I think there's no doubt about it, many people put Pele and Maradona as the best players in the world, but I think in terms of players who have been much more famous are these two, in fact since they met at the World Cup in the USA, some time ago I saw a news item on social media that an AI predicted that Argentina would win the next World Cup again, I honestly find it difficult, but these are things that people sometimes put out, I think it's too early to say who will win, everything can change, times change and this World Cup looks promising, there will be more football, more teams, which means that we will enjoy football for a long time.
This discussion is and has always been kind of pointless. If someone today claims that Pele and Maradona were better than Messi, then this means that they think if Messi would have played against Maradona in the past, Maradona would have had more impact on the outcome of the game than Messi. Seriously I don't that is correct. Messi has decided so many games and the claim that he was fed by all his amazing midfielders is true, but only to a certain degree. Compare the one man show goals and games from Maradona and Messi. Messi has scored so many goals without needing a single midfielder to pass the ball to him. He took it and he crossed the entire pitch and scored. That is insane and just look up how many goals he scored that were deciders.
Maradona was amazing, too. There is no doubt about that, but I think most people would agree that watching Messi sometimes felt like you are watching an alien play football. It was out of this world to see how smart, how quick, how agile, how versatile, how deadly he was. Free kicks, solo dribblings, shots from outside the box, everything.