I'm a Bone stan so I guess I agree, although I really like LAD... But Art of War was crazy underrated. The only weakness is it lacked that team atmosphere that E. 1999 had. Krayzie handled the bulk of the hooks - to be fair he killed them - and you could kind of tell they recorded most of their parts alone in the studio. They probably made a mistake not holding on to Dayz of our Lives for this album as well, IMO.
Another flaw is Bizzy's solo song might have been the weakest solo. Wish was Wish (there's a reason he never went solo) and Krazyie and Layzie both dropped epic songs.