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Second, he did hold back Holy and summon meteor. Meteor, however, failed. You get this game leading up to sephiroths aquisition of Meteor, and it fails.
Meteor wasn't a complete failure - Holy was unleashed too late, so Upper Midgar was basically devastated, and Kalm was damaged too. Thanks to Sephiroth's violence, Shinra was utterly wiped out (though Avalanche certainly helped), leaving the world without government.

Sephiroth was also well on his way to becoming a truly godlike being when he was stopped. His goal was to absorb the Planet's energy, becoming powerful beyond compare and eventually bonding with the Planet as a supreme being... he came awfully close to achieving that.
Yes, he did become close.

THough I think it is best to reject the destruction of upper Midgar and Shinra as an accomplishment. I mean its not like he cared one way or the other, it wasn't even part of his goal. It's just something that kinda happened along the way.