No, I don't think you can make a list of 100 artists and please everyone with it. It's not a bad attempt at all, but I think a problem here is that you're trying to summarize influence over 40+ years. I mean, Procol Harum was a really big influence on early prog and it's birth, but today - perhaps not so much. To figure out it's place in the list then becomes very difficult.
Maybe it would make more sense to make a list of early prog and their influence on their time and then early prog and their influence today (and then you could include modern prog's influence on today too in that). Then and now are quite different so I think that might work better I think even though I understand you wanted to make a single 100 list.
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