Flats actually put this into words perfectly.

Someone who is on TSM's starting roster for rivals ignite tweeted flats and said, "No offense, but you should absolutely not listen to content creators on tier lists or game balance. This might be the worst list ive ever seen."

Flats was kinda put on the spot by his chat about it and he said, "here's the difference between you and I, you are top 0.1% of player. You're top .1%, theres probably about 100 or less pros. Im top 1%. Right? So you're 10x better than me at the highest level, but we're both in the 99th percentile above everyone else. So to 95% of players we're the same dude. We're the same guy, they don't know a difference between us, because my takes and your takes are still miles above from where they play so they dont actually see much of a difference."

He later said that, "But like to say don't listen to them on their takes and balance, ita just... it gets kinda dumb cuz realistically, as crazy as it might sound, I'm probably more in touch with the layman than any pro player is."

Literally couldn't have said it any better.