OTW is indeed 'groundbreaking', 'influential', 'innovate', what ever you want to call it, look at the producers/musicians and trying to recapture the sound of the album in the last 5 years, Pharrell, Daft Punk, Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake Rodney Jerkins etc.
Who's trying to recapture the NJS sound of Dangerous?
History and Invincible have nearly limited bearing on today's music, sadly (unless you guys can point to it)
You are still using terms interchangably that do not mean the same. Influential is NOT the same as innovative. And no, it's not just semantics. One can be innovative but not influential and vica versa. Read the definitions again that you copied here. Not the same at all.
If you want to talk about the specific issue of the influence of an album on today's music, I would say today OTW, Thriller and Bad seem to have the most influence on artists of today (The Weeknd, for example, cited Dirty Diana as one of his biggest influences) out of MJ's albums. That's already 3 albums, so how does it make MJ look bad compared to anyone in terms of influence? It's not like each and every album of those other artists you mentioned were influential. So why is MJ held up to such high standards like no one else is? Because we do not demand that each and every Bob Dylan, Funkadelic, Ramones, Beatles, Elvis album have an influence on today's music, do we?
Actually, I do not see particularly much influence of Elvis on today's music. No one really plays that kind of music any more. I don't see particularly much influence of the Ramones on today's music - not in the mainstream anyway. Yes, they influenced the punk movement a great deal, but today that's more underground than mainsteam. The Beatles are influential and Dylan is probably influential to certain type of singer-songwriters, but MJ is influential just the same to certain other types of artists.
With other artists we just generally say they are influential (if they are) but for MJ for some reason you want to set the impossibly high standard that each and every one of his albums be influential on today's music or else he isn't influential enough for you? Why?
BTW, if something is not influential on today's music that doesn't mean it cannot be great. There is lots of great music that isn't particularly influential on today's music, yet it is great. HIStory may not be MJ's most influential album, but it's a great album. It's easy to see why light hearted, fun albums with more fun and general topics of party, romance etc - like OTW and Thriller - can have more influence on today's party oriented music than heavy, thematically more specific and darker albums. Although I have to note that TDCAU recently became a social anthem in the Black Lives Matter movement, so that album is not quite without influence either. It also has to be considered that Dangerous/HIStory and their respective eras are just not known in the US as much MJ's 80s albums, for various reasons. That also plays a part in why those albums get more ignored than OTW, Thriller or Bad.