Welcome back dude! Glad to hear that your time away gave you a new outlook and it looks like you took full advantage of that. My thread has been pretty dormant as work has gotten me pretty busy, which is 100% on a computer now a days so I usually want to spend less time behind a keyboard. I can see where you went through a stream of what I would consider 3rd or even 4th string games that actually mostly sit in my backlog right now, at least you knocked out the stories and should not be ashamed of that. Sometimes its the trophies that hold back great games.
This is pretty surprising, I don't think Sekiro was that well received overall, even from me, although it had the most satisfying combat. You either had super flashy looking and amazing parrying or ate the dirt pretty quick. The other Souls Fromsoft games give you lots of chances to cheese/coop/outlevel the fights (outlevel probably is just from Elden Ring). That being said, yes Bloodborne is still the best, great environment and combat. Also after recently playing Demons Souls for PS5, mostly coop, that game is probably more up there for me too (even if magic users are bullshit). I still need to go through Dark Souls and Dark Souls 3 as I didn't finish them, but every time I think of playing Dark Souls on my fat PS3, I cringe, the choppiness killed it for me.
People are going to want to argue about Elden Ring, but I think you placed it in the right spot.