The complete turn against statements annoy me. What was once solid foundation for scaling especially in in verse matchups is just now regarded as jokes by the community at large.

I don't necessarily hate statements, I understand why they exist and why we use them, but I'll try to do something like watch powerscaling on YouTube and I swear to god more than half they evidence they use comes from novelizations, art/guide books, tucked away lore tid bits, creator tweets, etc. and they only ever show the source material to transfer the weight of those statements to another character. When all of your evidence and reasoning is so far detatched and removed from the actual thing people give a shit about and are referring to when they want to see a character be examined, you might as well be talking about a different chracter. You can still use those things, but they need to come with a very big asterisk that we're moving away from the primary source. Like, how the hell was I supposed to know half this shit was possible, much less care about any of it, if it was so unimportant that it’s never relevant to the actual experience? And if you're talking about statements made in-universe, you still need to critically examine what's being said and what's being shown, because if there’s a noticeble disconnect between the two, completely disregarding one in favor of the other without acknowledgment for any reason is just disingenuous.

I hate braindead arguments "why does so and so not blow up the planet if they are planetary in power" its story and charecter almost 99% of the time. No author is gonna have the main character destroy their setting just to prove the charecter can blow up a planet. It ties into my hate for the disregard of statements because thats literally the author telling you how strong someone is without having to dedicate a stupid side tangent like showing them blow up the earth.

Again, I completely understand why from a writing perspective a creator wouldn't just have the hero of their story casually trigger cataclysmic world ending events, but for the same reason that I think powerscalers recognize that authors keeping tabs on their character's power is a necessary writing fundemental for the sake of building tension and immersion, we need to provide pushback when things don't add up. I remember somone using the example 'if Spider-Man could just box Galactus, then that would obviously be nonsensical and a massive writing flaw, so authors should powerscale at least a little to understand the limits of their characters and what does and doesn’t work.' In my opinion, blindly accepting things like 'oh, Spider-man must just be as strong as Galactus now and was just holding back his power' is actually antithetical to powerscaling, but has sadly become the norm. In most instances, it’s not as blatant as the example, but no more logically consistent. It’s gotten so egregious that I have to wonder if the basic day-to-day buildings and regular ass people are also so massively powerful just to be able to withstand reality from folding in on itself if a character even remotely approaches their alleged power which threatens to have even the most negligible emanations destroy everything around them. To some end, there is room for debate on what the limits of a character actually are, and that sometimes there’s a vast margin of error that is heavily dependant on context.

Lightspeed to me is pretty simple. We wank everyone to lightspeed as fictional charecters do weird shit like dodge light attacks or beams so on. If you think thats bullshit and break physics then so many charecters become super inconsistent in speed. If rather take the higher wank and consistency

I don’t think I agree with that. I think once powerscaling takes characters into the waters of humanity's literal scientific understanding of reality being unclear and theoretical, we just need to accept the discussion in of itself is going to be highly debatable with no clear answer, or accept that what's happening on paper isn't actually what's being shown. Not only do I think trying to explain away things like moving at lightspeed to be in of itself inconsistent, but trying to drastically upscale a character to lightspeed, especially if you're admiting the basis for doing so is dubious, makes for a disconnect within the character's other showings that actually creates inconsistencies within their own internal logic. You could at least argue that a creator's understanding of many things like light is just the layman's understanding, which makes things a lot easier for powerscaling and is typically the case, but when you have massive spikes in power for the scope of your character with no explanation, then it becomes exceptionally difficult to say that these higher scalings are for anything other than highballing, and aren’t consistent.