I mean, why shouldn't it be so? Great movies remained great movies through the decades and The Wire is still not even that old when you think about it. I think it will forever be one of the greatest because it's the only TV show to do what it did: it was dense, long, complex, brutal, epic but still super realistic, which made it one of the most accurate social commentaries ever created in TV format. It's hard to replicate something like this and I'm not even that sure that writers are interested in doing it these days.

As for me, in my personal ranking of HBO tv shows, I would put it right after The Leftovers, in the second place. Both were a special experience, but The Leftovers is the tv show that resonated with me the most