How do you think Yoshida would react to the following hypothetical regarding parsing?

[Vnolan]

If you think strength in numbers will amplify the voice, prevent expulsion, or the best case scenario for you; get them to cave, you would be sorely mistaken.

They just had a chance to flex their muscles with the automated waymark placement. How did that turn out?

So yeah very doubtful Yoshi would be complacent with such an act, and instead would kick over the can of fuel and light the match himself. The guy is pretty passionate, and he has shown no love for this kind of software.

Which act? Parsing? He already said he's fine with it if you keep it to yourself. You believe the "we can't be sure" excuse about streaming? If an influencer were to make hateful comments, you can bet they would not be invited to the next event.

The fact that you wouldn't be criticizing/harassing players with the data doesn't matter since they already explicitly said "Please don't use them." and stated that such tools are against the ToS.

It's not about whether it's allowed, but whether they would choose this of all instances to hand out punishment. Participation wouldn't have to be limited to those that can parse. Those without access to one could have a friend relay the info over outside channels and let them post it in-game. Those players would be at risk just the same despite not using a parser. Do you not see how ridiculous the whole situation is? People try to compare to real-world law, but it would be like something is only illegal if you admit to it. Doesn't matter if it was impossible for you to commit the act, you said you did and that's all the proof needed.

I'm sure there are better ways to approach the situation, but what's proposed here will do more harm than good.

No one is proposing anything. It's a hypothetical which should be obvious since the people who would be needed to partake in such an event (those with parsers) would have no incentive to (because they can already parse).

Whereas you have another culture that completes more of it and doesn't make loud threats for the most part about parsers exclusion from the game.

Koike incident happened on NA servers?