Take a look at the players list of players who scored 30-40 points last year, you will find many 2nd line wingers there and a few 1st liners, guys like Beauvillier, N. Roy, Brown, Domi, Backlund, E. Kane, Tuch, R. Smith, J. Toews, Wennberg, Iaffalo, Pacioretty, C. Smith, Zacha, W. Karlsson, Crouse, Milano, Heinen, Vatrano, Paul, Backstrom and Hayes. I would say that is quite the list of 2nd line forwards, BTW it is more of the 2nd line centers that teams would be calling for a guys head if they were producing at less than 30 points in the top 6.

Take a look at the players list of players who scored 30-40 points last year, you will find many 2nd line wingers there and a few 1st liners, guys like Beauvillier, N. Roy, Brown, Domi, Backlund, E. Kane, Tuch, R. Smith, J. Toews, Wennberg, Iaffalo, Pacioretty, C. Smith, Zacha, W. Karlsson, Crouse, Milano, Heinen, Vatrano, Paul, Backstrom and Hayes. I would say that is quite the list of 2nd line forwards, BTW it is more of the 2nd line centers that teams would be calling for a guys head if they were producing at less than 30 points in the top 6.

Again, you're trying to make a comparison of their play now, using stats that skew due to the start of a players career doesn't work.
- Anderson having around 29, 30, 32 point seasons is consistent, but really isn't a credit to a player who played most of those seasons and is being payed 5.5 mil for the next 5 years. For Comparison, Conor Sheary scored 40 points playing around the lineup last year, and was being paid 1.5 million.
- Wilson scored more goals than Anderson despite a. Not being a goal scorer and b. not playing near full seasons.
- I'm saying that career points is not a good measure of trying to compare them now. Anderson had the better start to his career, but when you try and actually compare the two's play now, noone is going to care that Anderson did better in his first couple seasons, when both are in their late 20s and the NHL is a "what have you done for me lately" type of league.
- Wilson has also spent the majority of his career, if we want to talk career, not with Ovi and Kuzy as you claim. Though they did play together a majority of 2020, Wilson was rarely on the first line prior to that year (being passed up for Vrana, Burakovsky, and others, even Connolly occasionally), and played with Ovi and Kuzy much less last year and instead played with Oshie (and a revolving door of centers) for parts of the year due to a multitude of injuries (Washington would instead use Sheary, Protas, and Hathaway over Wilson). Wilson's stats are mostly his own, and decently higher than Anderson DESPITE not being someone who puts up large amounts of goals or points (in fact, he rarely even plays PP1 when everyone is healthy, passed up for better passers like Backstrom, Oshie, and Kuznetsov).
-Finally, Wilson has also improved in the last few years while Anderson hasn't. In his last three years, Wilson has improved, going from 44 in 68 games in 2019-20, to 33 in 47 (pace for 58) in 2020-21. Wilson is also far better defensively than Anderson (though not hard to out-pace Anderson's 16% defense rating on JFresh). It's hard to compare a 32 point winger who can't play defense to a 52 point All-Star who also plays much better defense and also throwing nearly 90 more hits while he's at it. Their overall career numbers are similar for a multitude of reasons, but to compare the two in their current state of play and contract, they are nowhere near similar.

how's this look then, over the last 5 years stats only

Wilson since 2018-19: 256 GP 80 G 89 A 169 PTS
21 Playoff GP 6 G 5 A 11 PTS

Anderson since 2018-19: 250 GP 69 G 45 A 114 PTS
32 Playoff GP 6 G 3 A 9 PTS

11 points more per season
goals 11 more = 2.2 more per year

Now factor on Kuznetsov and Ovi and the gap narrows significantly more

Want to just look at the last 3 years

Wilson 58-71-129 in 193 GP PPG 0.67
Anderson 37-23-60 in 138 GP PPG 0.43

That is when the difference becomes more apparent, coincidentally it is also when Josh missed almost an entire season due to surgery. Don't get me wrong there, I am not saying Josh could have made up the 69 points difference but if he had played those extra 55 games then the difference wouldn't have been as significant (like maybe there would have been only 20-30 points separating them over the 3 seasons).

Love how you think that Anderson sucks defensively, Anderson is about average defensively for a forward hovering around the 45.8-59.2% mark in CA/60 by comparison Tom Wilson hovers around 50.5-63.9% so they are similar defensively for their careers, so yes Wilson is on average better defensively than Anderson, Anderson is not as bad defensively as you seem to want everyone to believe.