Possibly. There could be a recency bias there or even a bias based on predicting all these guys will live up to their potential. It's really hard to gauge what kind of hype past classes had compared to the hype of this crop. And we have concrete information to see how past crops panned out compared to an unknown with the current crop.
For comparison (ELCs only)...
2019 has Point, Matthews, Marner, McAvoy, Rantanen, Aho, Tkachuk, Werenski, Trouba, Guentzel, Boeser, Laine, Meier, Tuch, Connor, Schmaltz, Buchnevic, Labanc, White, Konecny, Kapanen, Vrana, Kerfoot
2018 had McDavid, Eichel, Nylander, Larkin, Domi, Reinhart, Mantha, Ehlers, Bertuzzi, Kase, Hinostroza
2017 had Panarin, Draisaitl, Pastrnak, Gostisbehere, Drouin, Teravainen, Horvat, Arvidsson, Sheary, Wennberg, Burakovsky
2016 had Kucherov, MacKinnon, Barkov, Scheifele, Gaudreau, Forsberg, Monahan, Rakell, Hertl, Trocheck, Rask, Ristolainen, Jenner
2015 had Tarasenko, Stone, Huberdeau, Klingberg, Hamilton, Zibanejad, Gallagher, Bjugstad, Granlund, Saad, Galchenyuk, Nelson, Toffoli, Spooner
You could be right.