I don't do it often, but I was purposely being contentious.
I wasn't saying anything outlandish that I couldn't back up, though.
Now personal significance...that's a whole different ball of wax, and it needn't have anything to do with greatness in a historical context. For me, Mendelssohn and Brahms often have more significance in my life now, where Mozart meant more to me when I was younger. I owe him everything. Maybe that's why I am a bit of a bulldog in his corner...and I probably would not even have liked him had I known him.
Akhil, standing next to Beethoven's symphonies, I think all Mozart's symphonies seem to lack is Beethoven's modernism (for the time). It is this that sets Beethoven apart. Mozart was every bit his equal in craftsmanship.