Endrick, a new football star recruited to Real Madrid, quoted Cristiano Ronaldo as his idol. This is also seen with Haaland, Mbappe, Saka, Vini Jr, Rodrygo, Kvara. So many young players today all state Ronaldo as an influence for them. Messi has more accolades than Ronaldo, but the only young players I can think that stated him as an influence is Julian Alvarez and Jude Bellingham. Why do you think most young players respect and admire Ronaldo more than Messi?
You’ve already got a lot of good answers here, but another thing worth mentioning (which may be mentioned elsewhere already) is that none of the Brazilian players you’ve mentioned would ever pick an Argentinian as their idol, at least not publicly, which explains the Endrick/Vini etc angle