That list includes 1158 restaurants. I think if I made a list of my favorite 1000 restaurants, there still would be differences. Making a list bigger doesn't resolve the simple fact that different people prefer different things in fine dining (or anything else in life, for that matter).

I am still unclear as to why any one list bothers you so much. It's just a list. You don't have to agree with it. Anyone who really thinks that No. 3 on ANY restaurant list is inherently better than No. 14 or No. 29 or so on is not terribly bright IMO. I'm sorry now for being blunt, but that is what I believe.

I work in university admission guidance in the USA, and I help students from all over the world get accepted to universities (and colleges here in the USA) worldwide. There are so many college rankings out there that make people crazy in exactly the same was as restaurant rankings do herein. I reiterate that all rankings on subjective things are flawed because there most often is no way to truly rank things. Yet humans love to rank things, and so they do. Categories and broad generalities can be drawn from such lists/rankings, but no ranking could ever truly be factual. It's just not impossible for anything that is so subjective.