The guitarist on that list were certainly more influential, and ground breaking for their time than Guthrie, and in fact Jimi, and Clapton were huge influences on Guthrie's playing.
As for the whole Guthrie fret issue he was obviously just stating that a 22 fret as opposed to a 24 freter is a more traditional fret number. It doesn't matter if it's a 22, 24 or a 27 fret, a 6 string, 7 or 8 string, which ever you prefer there is no right or wrong number. I don't know where you get these outrageous ideologies, but you should really take some time to rethink some of them before blurting them out unless you just like to argue. You just come off as a person who just got into discussing the conceptual side of music, and wants to not only point out, but prove his unformulated hypotheses', which in the end you sound very narrow minded. Although I will say It's good you obviously care.
As for your opinion Guthrie makes better music than anyone on that list(excluding MR. Swedish meatballs himself aka Yngwie) is as you would put it "a poor opinion." Please get back to me when he's a part of producing a song even a fraction as prolific as songs like Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here, White Room, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Hey Joe, Purple Haze, etc. etc. the list could go on for ages.
