As someone who subscribes to Bicycling and Road Bike Action and someone who passed on Specialized and Trek in favor of the Cannondale- I will say that Road.cc and Bike Radar have had Cannondales in their short list for bike of the year and the Synapse and CAAD have won recently.
For me I rode the Roubaix, the Domane and Cannondale- and the Cannondale was the best- of course its subjective but it was the right price, with the disc brakes I wanted and the ultegra drive and simply looked the best.
I actually had a lot of fun seeking out the bikeshops that sold different bikes- Giant, Bianchi, Cannondale, Specialized, Trek etc. I learned a lot. Editors have their favorites and they have their sponsors.