Leo DiCaprio V Daniel Day Lewis

I'm a fan of both. I've just watched There Will Be Blood and Daniel blew me away. I love both these actors but sometime the idiocy of those overpraising Day Lewis and dissing DiCaprio is nonsensical.
Some will come to this board with their own preconceived prejudice and will refuse to listen to reason, while a few will read what I'm saying with an open mind. The answers will speak for themselves.
As great an actor as Daniel Day Lewis is, the idea that he is better than DiCaprio and blew him away in this movie because of pure talent is dumb and ignores the overall purpose of the movie.
The entire point of the movie is that Amsterdam is the little pup and that Daniel is the big ragged yard dog.
(1) The movie builds towards this by establishing scenes with Daniel dominating the other characters. A scene at the beginning of the movie where he murders Leo's father. A scene where the five points dissolve into the shot of the palm of his hand as Daniel intones that he owns the territory. A scene where he takes a butchers knife and teaches the younger DiCaprio how to kill a man. Etc.
(2) Daniel's Bill The Butcher character is dressed and presented as a dominating character.
(3) Daniel constantly hams it up a notch above Leo and the other characters as he plays the part.
(4) In contrast DiCaprio's job is to play his character as unsure of himself, intimidated, seeking a father figure, throughout most of the movie.
(5) All the other characters go out of there way to tell us how dangerous The Butcher is while telling us that Amsterdam has no chance, thus building Daniels character up even more as a real threat.
In short, the movie direction, script, soundtrack, dress and the other characters, Hell, even the names of the characters create the impression of Daniel Day Lewis as a dominating figure and Leo as the young whipper snapper. I have no problem with this. That was the intention of the movie. But when idiots take this as some gospel evidence that Daniel Day Lewis is the better actor they insult there own intelligence.
At this point in their careers Daniel may well have been the better actor since he had more experience, but DiCaprio was more likely nieve in allowing himself to be taken advantage of like this. On the script alone, The Butcher dominates the story so it is hardy a surprise that he would in the final movie when you add any experienced actor and give him a Cool name, clothes, dramatic scenes,cool lines of dialogue, allow him to ham it up and have other characters constantly refer to how dangerous he is. Marlon Brando wouldn't have done any better.