People keep comparing Romance of the Three Kingdoms to the Chu-Han Contention, but the Three Kingdoms is a novel.

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It makes sense if you compare them using official historical records,
but please stop comparing them based on what you read in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The Three Kingdoms story was created by the Han people out of resentment over the fall of the Han Dynasty, and the story kept getting exaggerated, and exaggerated, and exaggerated.
That is ultimately why it was published as a novel,
so you shouldn't keep using it for comparisons.
If you look at the Romance, Zhuge Liang is practically a deity; who could you even compare him to?
Wake up from your dream.