To be honest, Fergie wasn't that bad.
I'd still would've preferred Esthero over Fergie, but BEP as a quartet only sucked ass after 2008 and the shit they came up with like "I gUtA FiiLen".
Nowadays they're back on HipHop but they're too distracted by propaganda, and I'm sure they'd be great again if they went back to the mid 90s vibes. No disses, no sjw manifesto, no bullshit. Just plain old good HipHop like they used to do alongside Esthero and other female collabs.