AOTC is much worse than TPM. Menace at least had the duel. Clones was blurry, spent too much time on a romance between actors with no chemistry and the climax was a giant CGI battle where both sides were robots. Yawn.
Really it’s arguing over which shit stinks worse. At the end of the day both are shit.
For me it all comes down to whether cringey love scenes or cringey child acting/Jar Jar bothers you more. Usually, I give the edge to the latter. The fact that TPM was the biggest letdown in cinematic history pushes it over the edge to be the absolute worst in my opinion. That it includes scenes of a toddler Darth Vader asking his future lover questions like “Are you an angel?”, shouting “Yippee!”, and accidentally blowing up a battle station with his “spinning” trick doesn’t help either. TPM arguably has a higher high in the duel, but there is nothing lower than that shit, and even the duel is ruined by the fact that it is inter-spliced with those terrible scenes, plus the Gungan battle on top of that. At least the CGI battle in AOTC somewhat impressed me at the time, and there wasn’t quite as much shit going on at once. I’ll also take angsty teenage Vader over annoying child Vader, though it’s close.