What are you measuring to determine that now your result is viewed as less valuable? Is it the peer reviewers or personal conviction? In the end all that matter

What are you measuring to determine that now your result is viewed as less valuable? Is it the peer reviewers or personal conviction? In the end all that matters for you, to the extent that peer-reviewed publications are important to your career, is that your paper gets cited. And if people are citing the unfinished arxiv paper instead of yours then that speaks poorly of their own research and not yours.