Disagree. The examples you've just summed up are pretty much inherently standard when it comes to such individual awards, where there are usually multiple deserving winners, a variation of top candidates and from time to time a controversial winner (there are also many question marks that can be placed over earlier wins, e.g. Stanley Matthews 1956, Yashin 1963, Keegan 1978, etc.) ... however it's nothing like the unprecedented "by default"-type domination Cristiano and Messi have had over the top-2 spots in the last 7 or 8 seasons (most of it well deserved, but sometimes far less so); 2013 was the best example of that, it was somewhat farcical that Cristiano won and that Messi was even in the top-3, let alone ahead of Ribéry, in my opinion.