Do you think Hearts of Steel Optimus is multiversal like some Quorans claim?
Their reasoning is that he defeated an Elder God and AVP said even Unicron was scared of Elder Gods or smth.
In the HOS series, much of the Decepticons seemingly died due to running off a cliff in their train modes (Autobots thought this finished off all the Decepticons).
In the Infestation 2 tie-in sequel, an Elder God infected Shockwave was damaged by 1880s human navy weaponry.
And I don't remember these characters do anything impressive beyond building level. Best feat off the top of my head for any Transformer in this series is probably Gears taking a seemingly indirect shot from missiles that created
this explosion.
So, as you can see, Transformers in this story are not exactly a bunch of Gods. Yet, a supposedly Multiversal Optimus couldn't singlehandedly streamroll an army of building level characters??
You can see him fight the Decepticons here.
That specific individual Elder God Optimus fought was probably not very strong.