Is Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich better than Jupp Heyneckes' Bayern Munich?

Last season Bayern broke over 30 league records as they swept every competition to win the first treble in German football history. They set a new points record in the league with the biggest-ever lead over second place, had the best-ever goal difference and the best defensive record in league history to name just a few.
This years Bayern Munich squad have been proclaimed as something of legendary. They are the nigh indestructible club that have laid waste to their opponents clinically and efficiently. Where Jupp Heynckes promoted a side with massive physical presence, Pep Guardiola created an appealing creative nature, one that has supporters screaming for more. The question is, are they better than they were last year? We try to find a suitable answer for this question in this article.
In the last season Bayern Munich was known as one of the most complete teams. They were so powerful defensively that Neuer was rarely ever challenged. Their formations and rounded back four meant that gaps were seldom found in the defence. The team usually played with a 4-2-3-1 formation and made brilliant use of their wings to make their runs. Their typical plays involve balls being dribbled or crossed into the centre without holding much possession and a very small amount of passing as compared to other clubs, for example Barcelona. Their creativity stemmed from the wings as compared to the centre, and Toni Kroos played an integral role in supporting the attackers, them being Mario Mandžukić or Mario Gomez. Added to that was the entire team’s innate ability to keep running for the entire 90 minutes.
The defence and wings of the Bayern of 2012 were phenomenal and to add to that was their overpowering team chemistry. At the same time, they fell short on set pieces; that was their only significant and not too glaring weakness.
Now talking of Bayern under Pep Guardiola this season we can see that Bayern Munich has flourished a lot under the management of Pep Guardiola, who chose to undertake the ever-daunting task of managing a treble-winning club, while at the same time keeping up with the standards that Bayern set last year, and the monumental personal goals he set while managing Barcelona. He has certainly done an unparalleled job, considering that the team has already won the Bundesliga, are in the semi’s of the DFB Pokal and have reached the quarter-finals of the UCL, with promise of going further.
As compared to JuppHeynckes’ managed Bayern, this season creativity was given greater importance as strength in the central midfield, and as a result Javi Martinez has been finding it a tough task to be a part of the starting 11, and even when brought onto the pitch, he was given a position of centre-back.
Mario Mandžukić was used less in passing play this season; his teammates did their best to find him with early crosses, looking to exploit his gift for accurate and powerful headers. With his height and his prowess with aerial shots, he was just the man for the job.
Many football commentators say Guardiola has made Bayern even better. But the final verdict is out until the end of May, by which point Bayern will hope to have successfully defended its entire treble. With such a stellar squad, anything less would almost amount to failure.