Foreigner = worst album ever

I think that some people ask themselves why McDonald was playing in Foreigner. I visited some years ago one website dedicated to Foreigner (I think that it was Rhino Records website announcing the new Foreigner Box-Set which title I can`t remember now). They reproduced the notes of the booklet of that Box Set. It has a long story of the band. I remember that I read that the band was really started by guitarist Mick Jones, who was unemployed at that time (1975-76) after the split of Spooky Tooth, a band he played between 1972 and 1974. He started recruiting musicians in New York, which was the city he lived since the split of Spooky Tooth. He also found McDonald, who had been working in other things, not in music. So, he joined the band Jones was forming. By the time they had the band with their six original members (Jones, McDonald, Gramm, keyboardist Al Greenwood, drummer Dennis Elliott, and bassist Ed Gagliardi) and they had a recording contract with Atlantic, both became co-producers of the albums of the band, but Jones was the Musical Director, so he had the main power to say which musical style the band was going to follow.Jones said that he was working very well with McDonald for the first two albums, "Foreigner" (1977) and "Double Vision" (1978), because he admired McDonald`s as multi-instrumentalist (he played horns, woodwind, keyboards and guitars and also sung backing vocals). By the time of their third album called "Head Games" (1979, with Gagliardi being fired before recording it), which was also co-produced by both, problems started when McDonald wanted more to be guitar player most of the time and also wanted to write more songs. Also there were problems with keyboard player Al Greenwood, who also wanted to write more songs for the band. Jones saw the band mainly as his band, so the other 3 (Gramm, Elliott and new bassist Rick Wills) supported Jones, and both McDonald and Greenwood were fired. Their next album was recorded as a quartet (with additional session musicians), called "4", and the band became even more commercial and successful in the eighties. I think that McDonald needed a job so he was in Foreigner for some years. IMO, the 3 albums recorded with the six members line-up are the best in their discography. But I still can`t understand why McDonald, being a very talented musician, didn`t have the same success in his musical career. He disappeared for years until being in Foriegner, and since he left the band he disappeared again for a lot of years until recording his solo album in the late `90s. I also read an interview done with McDonald for a Foreigner`s Fans Website. He said that he never wanted to leave Foreigner. He was asked to leave the band because Jones wanted the band for himself only.