"check out what renbourn, jansch, mctell. martyn, spider john koerner were doing at their age and stop arguing for the sake of arguing."

Renbourn and Jansch were amazing guitarists, Ralph McTell and John Martyn were very very good guitarists, spider john koerner was/is a good player though I wouldn't say mind-blowingly brilliant. I like the music of all those people, though John Martyn isn't really my cup of tea. (I preferred his playing on his first two albums, before he started using FX)

I wouldn't claim that all of the people I mentioned above are on the same level as Renbourn or Jansch, but I don't think that's any different to how it was back in the 60s or 70s. . It's very easy to look at the past with rose-tinted spectacles. You've named just 5 of the top people out of thousands of guitarists and singer-songwriters that trod the boards in the folk revival.

If you're talking in pure technical terms, the playing of some of the whizzkids on the Candyrat Records label surpasses the stuff that Renbourn or Davey Graham was doing. It is totally unbelievable - stuff that beggars belief. Andy McKee, Gareth Pearson and others. I don't personally like it - it's a bit too flashy for me, and it's almost all instrumental. No soul. But without question they are playing stuff that would challenge a Renbourn or a Jansch.