Interesting that you come up with this narrative now. You didn't include this in your OP.
By what measure can you say the quality of the NHL is lacking?
Btw, would you say that Jagr had only one season where he dominated? It looks like 1998 - 99 was the only year where he blew the competition away.
1995-96, sure he lost the Art Ross to Lemieux but was 29 Pts ahead of 3rd leading scorer Sakic.
1997-98, he won the scoring title by 11 Pts (102 to 91 lead over Forsberg and Gretzky), that 11 Pts lead btw is a larger lead than any of the current Art Ross winners have enjoyed (in comparison Crosby won his only Art Ross by 6 Pts).
1999-00, Jagr won the Art Ross by 2 Pts despite missing "19 games" and beat the second leading scorer by those same 2 Pts despite playing 11 more games. Since you like to use projections and PPG, Bure had 94 Pts in 74 games and projected over 82 games = 104 Pts. Jagr had 96 Pts in 63 games and projected over 82 games = 125 Pts. That would have been even a larger gap than his previous season.
Even his 2000-01 within context was a dominant season, he scored 121 Pts which is more than anyone besides Thornton has scored over the last (Jagr scored 123 himself) since 1999-00. Sure he only won the Art Ross by 3 Pts but that also means he beat out Sakic who had a dominant season as well.
When Crosby can "actually" win 5 Art Ross trophies (4 in a row) and not just "be on pace" for them, come talk to me.
Are you seriously questioning Jagr's dominance to try and make Crosby look good?
Crosby so far is "could have, should have, would have".
Jagr just did, injured or not.
Since Jagr's best seasons (1994-95 onward come in seasons comparable to anything post-2005 in terms of scoring here are Jagr's seasons);
1994-95, 70 Pts in 48 games, Art Ross, pace of 120 Pts in 82 games
1995-96, 149 Pts in 82 games, 2nd in the Art Ross race
1996-97, 95 Pts in 63 games, 6th in scoring, 3rd in PPG, 124 Pts pace in 82 games
1998-99, 127 Pts in 81 games, Art Ross
1999-00, 96 Pts in 63 games, Art Ross, pace of 125 Pts in 82 games
2000-01, 121 Pts in 81 games, Art Ross
2005-06, 123 Pts in 82 games, 2nd in Art Ross, 2nd in PPG, all this at the tender age of 34
That is 7 total seasons in which he played at a 120 + Pts pace and before you harp on about how Crosby has done that 4 times (3 x in the last 3 seasons), he only did it once and that was 2006-07, otherwise he has played a full 99 games in the last 3 seasons. In comparison, Jagr scored 219 Pts between 1994-95 and 1995-96 in 130 games (better pace and a lot more games than just 99 games).
BTW, Jagr has never played less than 45 games "ever" and that was during the lockout shortened season of 2012-13 which is still more than Crosby played.
96 Pts in 63 games is better than 66 Pts in 41 games, or 37 Pts in 22 games or 56 Pts in 36 games, just saying.