D2 didnt win any awards and was claimed to be the pinnacle of aRPGs back in 2000, winning game of the year once is not the same as being the pinnacle of a genre, maybe if it won game of the year a few more times in a row but it didnt, you blew your own argument out of the water with nothing that backs you up.
Its only years and years later with hardcore D2 fans nostalgia that even thinks the game is the pinnacle of anything.
You just proved yourself wrong yet again, D2 has not won any best design awards so it cant be the pinnacle of aRPG design if it has not won anything saying it is.
Concurrent playerbase determines what is a better game.