I won't argue that White isn't in Page's league (nor is The Edge, though I think he also deserves more credit than he gets from people) but there's a lot of things that makes him one of the most interesting guitarists from the past decade.
Skill isn't enough to get my attention, people can go on about Lane's technique, his "godly" tone and so on, but more often than not it just sounds like background music to me.
Urban constantly refers to me as a "muso", but I'm not a muso at all, while I do adore many musicians for their technical skill, they have to have energy to match.
The best way to put it is, Lane is all skill and no energy and White is no skill and all energy. I greatly prefer the latter.
EDIT: Probably the main reason I hate so much indie music is that it's no skill AND no energy.
