Part of his legacy was the cost of retaining his soul with the knowledge that CA and MF were fighting to the death over it

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2015/12/07/frank-stellas-decline-on-the-artists-whitney-museum-retrospective
 

as mentioned in the article there was difficulty among the critics taking in his life works as a whole at his Whitney retrospective 

some of my favorite works were from the silver aluminum and steel freestanding "space junk" era, but there were also some stylistic rabbit holes I just couldn't follow