Stop there for a minute.
With only slight exaggeration, no two groups of gamers have agreed upon what it meant, or how it should be used, since it was first published. The perception of it has been flawed, in various ways, for decades, for every generation of gamers, from every edition that included it.
Setting aside what any of us individually may want, the empirical evidence here is kind of important. There is a point at which, after tens of thousands of people could apparently not get it right, that one might want to at least consider that, as a practical matter, the problem isn't the people, it is that the system is not so great, broadly speaking.
That doesn't mean it doesn't work just fine for you.
But the guys who made Ford Pintos couldn't look just at the cars that worked fine. Eventually, after enough of them caught fire, they had to stop blaming bad luck, or the drivers, and look at the design as flawed.