David Fear believes Daniel Craig is the best 007

Brosnan wasn't as shitty as many like to pretend, I would agree. Here's a reply that I wrote over on TMDB, in a thread which linked this same article, and tacitly posed a question similar to the one I've posed here:

D.Craig wasn't terrible, nonetheless that article sets up a false binary right out of the gate.... Aside from George Lazenby, how do we even begin to say who was "the best" Bond compared to all of the others?

As venerated as Connery is, the writer who once described him as having the charisma of formica during his first couple of films wasn't exaggerating. Yeah, From Russia With Love is great; let's just not pretend that a lot of this memorableness isn't just as attributable to the presence of two phenomenally charismatic villains in the form of Donald "Red" Grant and Rosa Klebs. To say nothing of Daniela Whatshername wearing nothing but bedsheets and a ribbon around her neck in one scene. SC had great presence, and definitely grew into the role; by time the last couple of films rolled around though, he'd gotten paunchy and clearly was exhausted

Roger Moore still dishes out one liners more adroitly than any Bond before or since. Everyone who pointed out that he's probably the least "Alpha" of the Bonds is correct. Does anyone really think Connery, Dalton, or Craig would've looked in place in one of the zany yarns that Moore found himself in? Aside from perhaps For Your Eyes Only

Timothy Dalton arguably came closest to embodying Ian Fleming's original vision. Oddly enough, this return to Bond's roots was pretty fitting for the blood and guts heavy action movies of the 80s, where the franchise was now having to contend with characters like John McClain, Rambo, and Martin Riggs. By time the more light hearted 90s rolled around though, Dalt's brooding and glum take on 007 would've looked just as retrograde as Van Damme, Stallone, and to a lesser extent Arnie did during that same decade

The rest of that reply from TMDB:

Pierce Brosnan functions as something of a hybrid between Dalton and Moore. He's pretty deft with the quips, and is a passable enough actor to seem believable in the action sequences, nonetheless he also hews more closely to the playboy adventurer interpretation of the character set forth by Moore than he does Dalton's laser guided assassin. He was a perfect fit for a decade in which The Soviet Union was no longer worthy of being called a menace, the narcoterrorists depicted in LTK seemed to be on the wane, and entirely too many of us believed that Bill Clinton's jack-sery was cute, rather than unpresidential. But he was already outmoded by time the early 2000s, and yes 9/11, had rolled around

For all the flack Daniel Craig takes for not having much personality in his interoperation of Bond, one also wonders what Eon and any actor who took this role was supposed to do in the world we've all inhabited since The West began is nebulous and now seemingly failed War On Terror? The Jason Bourne comparisons are valid, and they also grievously ignore the influence that characters like Jack Bauer almost certainly wielded over the direction Bond took. Yeah, Craig era Bond is more or less a monosyllabic killing machine, mightily as Babs Broccoli tried to give him a depth heretofore unseen in these films. They also didn't really have a blueprint upon which to build a new and adapted-for-something-other-than-The Cold War Bond though

Ok, the real rest:

Iconic as Connery's portrayal was, in many respects it embodied everything that the counterculture later derided as plastic and phony within the lives of upper middle class people and their fantasies; that sure as hell wouldn't have flown in the 21st Century. For all the drubbing that Moore's work gets, he was a perfect fit for the 70s camp that this era of Bond traded in. Going back in that direction would've seemed worse than anachronistic in the 2000s. Dalton's rightly been sited as the spiritual precedent to Craig's interoperation, nonetheless he was still too flip, too playful, and nowhere near as physically pumped up to have fit into a cinematic landscape where all traces of fun had been declared verboten, and actors who took these sort of roles were now being called upon to pretty much put themselves through the Q course at Fort Bragg before filming. Brosnan's interpretation was nowhere near as mirthless or serious enough for a world that's knickers were soaking wet over the mere mention of names like Bourne or Jack Bauer

Asking "Who's the best Bond?" ignores the fact that each era of the franchise is representative of a historical context that's markedly different from the others

I agree. The only good Craig Bond movie is Casino Royale, but that's just because Craig was playing not-yet-a-Bond Bond. It worked because Craig has never actually played Bond, he played not-exactly-Bond Bond every time. Even in No Time to Die he never quite really becomes Bond.

I see a similarity.

You obviously feel attacked. Too bad. I enjoy Bond discussions with relaxed people.