And? What you’re saying and what you replied to are not mutually exclusive things.
The scoreboard is a useful tool if examined with a bit of common sense.
E.G., just ended a HiSTG damn auric match with 3 players who were so over their heads it wasn’t even funny. Not to brag but I was solo clutching for too much time and had to resort to “drill sergeant” mode to keep things moving. They split up all the time, ran off to die, facetanked (the ogryn just facetanked and magdumped stubber 80% for instance), they never checked their 6, didn’t properly prioritize threats, move/used to cover etc etc.
When the 2nd boss came they all fought it by the cliff and ignored all the much higher threats and numerous, barely bringing it to 50% it till ogryn knocked it off into void luckily, everything else was already dead inside the main areas when the came back in.
They did pretty much everything wrong and it was a hard carry and the scoreboard shows it too( I was on martyr zealot).
24 downs and 8 deaths between them, sometimes all 3 at once (twice at least).
And to your point, “highest damage” dude 6 downs, 2 death, 2 wound psyker who mostly assailed into stuff when he wasn’t in the dirt, never checked his 6; guess the platform.
If I showed this scoreboard to anyone with a lick of sense and some experience in HiSTGs they could draw an accurate conclusion: those 3 are nowhere near ready for aurics and would likely struggle on regular damnation, a lot.
If they looked at it to judge their own performance, they should come to the conclusion that they needed to drop down a diff and practice some more.
There’s value in the scoreboard as an analytical tool, and most of the time it just shows what was painfully obvious already with actual numbers and tallies.