Yeah, it's awful that people might actually know what the heck they're doing in a game and the rule they're playing with. How terrible!

Wait no I meant the exact opposite of that. What in the world is so wrong with being able to get a firm understanding of the way the game works, simply by looking at the items you're using? If anything, stats being hidden helps the 'elitist min/maxers' more than anyone else. Not all of us have the time to invest hours of our lives parseing numbers to maybe kind of sort of figure out what any given one thing might do.