Most of the talk I see from the pro parser community correlates to weeding out bad players, saving time, lowering frustations... etc... Very rarely do you run into an actual conversation promoting parsers as a tool for self improvement which is the only conversation I actually care about in regards to them. I feel like for this reason they ultimately are their own enemies and fuel the very people they are against.

Non party, (in game) self parsers would not hurt anyone and just give people an idea where they stand, something to look at improving constantly every fight, and a goal beyond just "clearing". They could be toggled or a simple game settings checkbox. There's no reason to be against this kind of thing other than wanting to deny someone else a tool that you don't feel like using yourself for a chance to improve. That's all I want to bring back to this table.