In the early days of their tyrannic reign, that's what I used to think too.
No longer.
Yes, they have done good things for the City. And they have done, and continue to do, dreadful things too.
None of us on here know what the others on that list have or haven't done for Hull or other places in Yorkshire. The difference with Allam is that he insists on having his or his family name splattered on pretty much anything good that he does. Others often take a quite different approach.
I nowadays have little doubt that whatever they do, they do it for self-serving purposes.
If anyone was in any doubt about that, it was clarified loud and clear when Enob infamously stated "I do what is morally right .... morally right for me" (apologies if not verbatim, but it's near enough).
Yes, it could and should have been oh so different ..... were they both not utter ****s.