Are you talking about 2015?
Steph didn't look "far and away the best player in the league" that year, he averaged 23-4-8 and only won MVP cause the Warriors won 67 games and no one else was close. Even with much worse records, Harden still got 25 first-place MVP votes and Bron got 5 more. Then in the Finals, everyone on the planet saw that Bron looked like the superior player and Bron got 4 Finals MVP votes to Steph's 0 even though Bron was on the losing end.
Steph didn't look like the clear best player in the league until 2016, and we all know how that ended.