Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
That's just moving the goalposts. Let's try another thought experiment. What if SE started introducing RNG elements that break the parser? Now whatever BiS gear and optimal rotation you have no longer works 100% of the time, if at all.
The only goalposts that were set were "Parsing improves performance." I answered "No, it does not." Not anymore than looking up a rotation is cheating, because Discord and other third party sites that host these rotations aren't directly sanctioned by SE.

As well, this thought experiment doesn't seem very well thought out. Parsers work by reading the data log and recording its output, and then calculating averages. RNG wouldn't change anything, I wouldn't think, and you could actually find a good chunk of players who would be happy that some gear is BiS for some situations and some is BiS for other situations.

The entire reason parsing works at all is because there is very little RNG involved in raiding.
Evidence for this claim?

It's scripted to a point where if you know when something happens, you can be prepared.
This has nothing to do with parsing though, this is just fight choreography.
Now imagine going one step further, and the game remembers you. It somehow knows you're "better" and changes it's strategy knowing YOU are there.
This is why I say this isn't a well thought out thought experiment. If Square could dynamically affect its fight AI to do this, they'd have access to some very powerful AI and it would make this game's endgame much more fun to be honest.
Now all these parser-based stats goes into the toilet because it's using the data against you.
Again, you might find some people who would prefer that to what we have now--fights which dynamically shift and adapt to the party rather than a strictly choreographed dance.
And SE has already indicated they log all the data needed to do this if they really wanted to, it was revealed as such during the Ungarmax post-mortem.
Yes, but the issue is the data is in post--it needs to be processed. And that's an after-the-fact kind of thing.