I'm not familiar with the other awardees but for Vitalik he deserves the award for contributing very well to the crypto community with his creation of ETH.
i wish if Satoshi Nakamoto really revealed himself to give credits and recognition of his innovative idea about blockchain technology.
I hope so that he will give credits to Satoshi Nakamoto as well since he won't have an idea on what ETH if it's not about blockchain and bitcoin that originally came from Satoshi.
Nobody is denying that he deserves it but I am curious how this will effect his ego.
We don't personally know him but if someone met him face to face can share his experience and interaction with VB, we might get an idea.