It all depends what is perceived as being better, a higher or lower level on completion.
A higher level will mean that you completed more tasks, killed more monsters and in a way acheived more in the game.
A lower level will indicate that you played the game following quests of your choice, and even though you didn;t have the skills/stats that you could have acheived if you did everyting you were still good enough at the game to complete it with inferior stats/skills.
I'm not saying that the lower the level of completion the better the player, but certainly the more challenging the final encounters would have been!!