This game doesn't do enough to help people clear Ex/Savage content.

[Rilifane]

not necessarily as i stated in my earlier post. there's 4 parses uploaded of myself in diamond weapon fights. and ive done 60-70 runs. traded in 4 or 5 weapons and sitting on 90 totems for the mount. I think its safe to say i'm "somewhat active" in that content yet 4 parses is defintely not a representitive median.

Fair point in your case, though that's definitely an outlier.
What irks me is that people keep using it as an excuse and others immediately jump on the bandwagon of "I'm actually really good, there was just this one bad run and of course it was the only one to ever get uploaded...!". If someone is good or even decent but don't parse on their own, chances are that their profile will reflect this. Because if someone is generally decent, most of their runs will generally be decent aswell. How high are the chances that you'd usually be in the 50ish area but that one time you died 3 times to something dumb and made it to single digit grey land was uploaded but nothing else?
The chances are really low but it is always used as an argument to excuse a not-so-nice looking profile as if it's a given, like OP already did in the past and many others aswell. It works the other way around, too. Chances are low for that to happen? So they are for both cases.
Bad logs are fine, we all have them. They can still happen after a 100 clears. But if someone has several clears but only really bad logs, the chances a re much higher for this person to be actually bad in this fight instead of having bad upload luck.

Gee people are so bitter. All I said is that people who run ACT and upload parses will generally have a better outlook than those who don't, so actually parsing goes in your favour, fflogs-wise.
Where did I ever say people upload your bad runs on purpose cause you were bad in them or something?
And Dzian has a point too, outside of savage not that many parse so you may only have a bunch of logs uploaded.
I was also not defending the OP or saying non-savage logs are important so...uh? I was just agreeing with the post I quoted.

Just because some disagrees with you doesn't mean they're bitter.

Of course it's good to have the option of parsing yourself. If nothing else, it allows you to plug it into xiva and get an in-depths analysis. Having more tools available is better than having less, at least when you're even remotely interested in improving or even checking how you're doing. Being reliant on others for such things is a big downside to this whole unofficial parsing being a grey area. You could use it to manipulate your profile, some do it. But honestly? Not nearly as many as people think. The most common profile is a healthy mix of everything.