It should be, but no.

For some reason people seem to snub this album compared to her other 3, including Bey herself at the SuperBowl.
Besides 4, it has the best variety of songs & it was really creative. Very percussion & trumpet heavy with a cool kind of marching-band quality to a lot of the uptempos. Her vocals were the most confident on this album.
This album was also a humungous quality leap forward from Dangerously In Love, which is probably her classic album, if any. DIL as a whole is kind of overrated, besides the singles.