Ah I see where you are coming from now. I can’t really disagree with your logic when you put it that way. I can see your point.The 1% are those who literally bare the essence and power of god. Those people are Ohtsutsuki and any other person capable of controlling the power of the jyubi.
I'm not underrating him at all, nothing I said indicates this otherwise I'd see people pulling up manga feats to contradict what i said. But nobody was able to, all they could do is just repeat more hype that the manga said in regards to Hashirama from the most contradicting characters in the manga (kabuto).
It's literally no different from th Hiruzen hype if you look at it from a very unbiased view that I'm approaching it in this thread (and only this thread) alone.
And as far as where I place Hashirama I put him either on par or slightly below Bm Naruto, in this is based solely on feats. Just know that if Hashirama could even reach the level of the 1% of the narutoverse, he'd be at the same position JJ Obito was when he fought the whole SA. Mind you this is excluding all the dangerous powerful people (such as akatsuki) that perished before the war started.
Can you see my point I'm trying to make? I know even when it comes to characters you like, you're the least biased compared to the rest.