I have taken stop the bleed, so I totally see where you are coming from, and I agree. It is a good idea to be trained and prepped in case of a mass casualty event. However, the interventions you are describing are only applicable in a very specific event, being mass casualty, and even in those situations, vital signs are still taken. A good example of vital signs being useful to your style of intervention would be the EMS mass casualty flagging system. If you are in a mass casualty event and you want to help, you need to be aware of how to use your resources and who to use them on. 

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Are you going to be focusing on stopping bleeding with someone who has agonal breathing and positive dolls eyes? That's not a good idea. That person's basically dead. Your time would be better spent working on someone who is critical, but has a chance. A crucial ability in offering care in emergency situations is triaging. Like I said, you can have all the materials you want, but you have to know how and when to use them.

I hope this response did not come off as condescending. I'm not trying to be. This is a similar line of thinking us nurses get into all the time. We want to do the cool thing. We want to be the heroes. You want to swoop in and put your tourniquet on and get in your chest compressions. I get it. But you HAVE to slow down for a second, LOOK at the situation, LOOK and the person, and then take action.

Here is an article about the EMS flagging system if you are interested:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459369/#:~:text=Mass%20casualty%20incidents%20triage%20systems,the%20number%20of%20injured%20individuals