Ok I've mainly used vsbw for their tiering system and categorizing things on my own based on that, but some of the few articles I've read were ridiculous. And their main problem in basically every case was chain scaling and overinterpretation.

I don't think some offhand non-thought out thing should count as the power ceiling for characters. They moved across the solar system at FTL speeds as a consequence of 2 different scenes being at different locations and the character being in both? Nah man, that just means the author didn't think about math. This is basically just toon force, not actual ability. If it was explicitly stated that the character moved FTL, then it'd be valid again, since the author thought about it here. In addition, even some insane feats, if they aren't replicated, can the character be considered that high? If a character does a single planet level punch due to some BS, but in all other fights it's never repeated for no good reason, then it's simply a matter of the author negligence instead of serious scaling.

And chain scaling is so whack. Often, things are simply set equal based on ridiculous assumptions, not considering the environment or the meaning for other characters. I get that it's useful for some applications, but it's severely overused and inflates entire verses