As I recall, if you were going to pick a "best pharaoh", I think the one most ancient Egyptians would consider the answer to be Ramses II, who had a long an prosperous reign, as I recall he ruled until he died in his 80s. In the same way that most of the empires of Europe wanted to claim to be the descendants of the Roman empire for 1000 years after the end of the western Roman Empire, for centuries after his reign different pharaohs tried to claim to be a reincarnation of Ramses II. If you're the ruler your descendants measure yourself against, I can't help but think that's a good indicator of your success.
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Ramses II was an army commander leading from the front, and successful in reestablishing the respect of Egypt from military victories.
But the consequences of living until he was 90 years old, was that the first four crown princes groomed to succeed him died before ascending the throne, he was followed by 4 short reigns, two of them overlapping in time, and within 24 years of his death, his dynasty was gone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Dynasty_of_Egypt
And soon Egypt was ruled by outsider.
Wow, that's actually something incredibly relevant to today, because everyone is so focused on the here and now they don't realize their own dynasties will be wiped out.
Perhaps based on what everyone's saying, we could say Ramses has the best PR team, but perhaps wasn't the best Pharaoh overall.
Perhaps based on what everyone's saying, we could say Ramses has the best PR team, but perhaps wasn't the best Pharaoh overall.