Contemporaries judged him in overwhelmingly positive ways, focusing on his generalship, his political acumen, and the then-unknown importance of the ways he shaped his son, Hannibal.
When a warlike prince attacks a powerful state, his generalship shows itself in preventing the concentration of the enemy's forces. He overawes his opponents, and their allies are prevented from joining against him.
But what's going to destroy Philip is not some enemy that can contend with his generalship or his, you know, machinations conducting realpolitik or his economic base that he's built over, you know, decades now ruling.
You can be on the other side, some small little nation out there about to be trampled by some giant power, and all of a sudden you have somebody with Alexander the Great's generalship qualities as their superpower, right?