For many years now skateboarding has been pretty well split between competition and "street", not street the genre of competition but jumping stair cases and making films for sponsors and the like. Saying the "worlds best" skaters isn't clear cut because making a living being a sponsored pro isn't the same skill set that the competition guys like Huston have.
It's similar with climbing. There are lots of people asking 'Why isn't Alex Honnold competing?'. With any 'lifestyle' sport there will be those who train for competition and those who seek sponsorship dollar for movies / influencing / out of competition feats.
I've heard a lot of moaning about the climbing because of the 3 events combined and people mostly specialising in just one of them. I quite like it though and like the idea of the an all-round prize.
For many years now skateboarding has been pretty well split between competition and "street", not street the genre of competition but jumping stair cases and making films for sponsors and the like. Saying the "worlds best" skaters isn't clear cut because making a living being a sponsored pro isn't the same skill set that the competition guys like Huston have.