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@Oliver Schick
Not having grown up in the UK, I have no cultural baggage concerning the Beatles, and while they're not nearly my favourite band I like most of their stuff, obviously with the exceptions of the naff bollocks that McCartney produced at times, or 'Run for Your Life'.
I think George Harrison was learning throughout the Beatles' existence, being younger than the others and less musically trained initially (none of them were much-trained, of course), and only started to come into his own late on when Lennon and McCartney had seemingly run out of inspiration. I think he then had a better post-Beatles career than Lennon.
Equally obviously, they were at the beginning of so many new things, like improved recording techniques, great production, or stylised band images, and 'Help!' (the single, not the LP) is a real watershed moment.
Then too many things went wrong, infighting and all that, and they never really capitalised on the status they had achieved with enough good songs and consistent enough late work (while there are good moments on all the late patchwork albums, even on the embarrassing 'Let It Be', they're just too mixed to be 'great'), but it had undoubtedly become completely unsustainable and they all just needed a holiday from being Beatles.