I didn't really get much from this video. You're basically saying that stats don't matter because they can be negatively influenced by doing certain actions that aren't tracked?

While I totally agree there are certain players who put waaay too much emphasis on stats, I still think the current set of statistics can give you a very accurate measure of a person's skill and playstyle. People put way too much attention on things like KD and SPM alone, which by themselves tell you nothing. A medic who hides behind their teammates and can't hit the broadside of a barn will have an amazing KD and SPM, but they'll have shit stats in every other area. Are they helping their empire? Sure, but it tells you very little about their individual ability.

Statistics in general have the lovely feature of getting more accurate the more data is introduced. If you have a small sample of a hundred kills or even 1 weapon aurax which is badly affected by helping people or whatever, then sure. But across an entire character over several hundred hours? It will be pretty accurate unless you make a point of dicking around. And even then, you have things like ACC, HSR, LPK that can tell you how well you perform individually with a weapon. Unless you like shooting at walls or something, in which case you're more of a jackass and intentionally skewing your stats negatively. Things like weapon trials are statistically insignificant when matched up over thousands of kills.

And let's say that you want to go "but my stats when I was a newb/messing are skewing my stats now". In that case you have planetstats lovely 30 day feature which will tell you how well you've done over the last month, so there's really no excuse.