"General Consensus" consisting of who? You? Reeves stopped competing in 1948. Deca was not even invented. What do you get out of trying to besmirch his reputation?
Reeves stopped competing in 1950 at the age of
Twenty Four !! because the sport lacked challenges , he won every single major bodybuilding title at the time , the Mr Olympia wasn't started until 1965 , anyway D-bol was
NOT produced until 1956 a full six years after Reeves retired , and steroids at first were used on weightlifters and they didn't make their way out to the West coast bodybuilding scene until the earliest 1960 , anyway when asked directly if he used he said outright no and that he never heard of steroids until the mids 60s , I always laughed when people say Reeves was " on " he was 6'1" and weighed 215lbs lol how if he was 6'1" and weighed 250'bs in the 1940s then you may have rasied an eyebrow , Reeves was a genetic freak so for him to weighed just 215lbs is 100% fesiable , and if you've read anything about the man , you know he is a man of integrity and if he says he didn't use , you know his word carries weight.