Ultron hacked technology that didn't exist yet. Namely, Kang the Conqueror. Hacked it in seconds.
Ultron was also FAR creepier a character. My kids couldn't even sit through the cartoon version of him. His fields stopped Thor's hammer, his durability is off the charts, and he conquered the entire earth in one story arc. Sure, some guys go "galactic" but accomplish a lot of small feats. Taking the one planet where all super heroes tend to convene is something most villains fail at.
He also can hack pretty much any technology, and is always working around, or "aware" of any attempts to stop him. While doing that, he's often upgrading his own AI in anticiptation of his next physical host. So even if someone like Braniac were trying to defeat him (which he couldn't), Ultron would already have an improved back up in the making.
Although Braniac could employ Wasp against Ultron, since in one arc he was programmed to never harm Janet. :)
I guess I find these debates to be far more subjective than most, and now all mediums have to be accounted for. The old issues of comic books are no longer the only "canon" as much of the genre has moved on.
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