I’d argue that The Wire had to exist for Breaking Bad to happen like it did.

In the season where Jesse and White try to sell on their own, rewatch the scene where Combo gets got. The entire cinematography drops Breaking Bad’s blues and swapps to the Wire’s shades of Grey and long lense shots. It was definitely BB’s production team tipping their caps to the wire…Hell the scene they chose was even (plotwise) The Wire

Breaking Bad (which Better Call Saul beautifully expanded on) was amazing but The Wire is the OG