Or Fuji (or someone else) downgrades DMC even further, I'm guessing first to tier 4 by saying the demon world isn't infinite and all the statements and feats are somehow meaningless, then to tier 5 by saying the creation and warping feats are just illusions or BFR or empty statements, then to tier 6 by saying Argosax didn't move the moon, then to tier 7 by saying the Qliphoth's kinetic energy didn't scale to anyone, then to tier 8 by saying Abigail's cloud feat only works on clouds and Mallet Island exploding somehow doesn't scale, then to tier 9 by saying all the other feats are outliers.
These might sound silly, but literally every one of these arguments has been made before, with many accepting them. That reputation DMC fans have for unreasonably inflating DMC's stats? It started years ago, when DMC was considered to be wall level, and DMC fans were "wanking" by pointing to feats like Arius splitting a street, Dante smashing a huge stone statue, Dante beating up enemies the size of skyscrapers, and so on, and saying that these feats were city block level. That's right, city block level DMC was once treated as obscene inflation of the stats.
In fairness, God of War has been treated almost as badly over the years.