Don't the Shaolin Sects appear too weak in Kim Yong's wuxia novels?

In Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils,
although he created an extremely powerful character like the Unnamed Monk,
even the Abbot of Shaolin gets defeated by Yutanchi in that same story..
In other works like the Legend of the Condor Heroes series or Smiling, Proud Wanderer,
it doesn't seem like Shaolin is portrayed as particularly strong;