To be fair, Byrne-era Luthor is basically a Miller-era Kingpin made respectable by high society, yes, but my point still stands - both Norman's power and his insanity have been used as deus ex machinas to excuse HUGE amounts of storytelling fail, from hiring a genetically modified actress to pose as Aunt May to hiring Mysterio to fake his own son's death, and then LYING IN HIS OWN THOUGHT BALLOONS about his son's "death."
And the fact is, Norman's single-minded obsession with Spider-Man is fundamentally irreconcilable with setting him up as an aspiring Master Of The World, because he ALREADY HAD POWER, countless times, and he THREW IT ALL AWAY, to go chasing after a character who, according to Marvel itself, is regarded as one of the more minor superheroes by the general public of the MU.
And the guy who wrote that article is probably the biggest Spider-Man/Green Goblin expert on the internet.
I don't care. He's still wrong.
After all, Dan Slott and Tom Brevoort are, by all accounts, total gurus of Marvel continuity, and yet, their vision of Spider-Man is still wrong.
Nothing you've shown me has changed my mind on this score.