IIRC, Soggy's main issue was with how the ranking pts system is applied vs. it simply being there.
For example, it kinda makes 0 sense why event buildings seemingly give 0 ranking pts, yet a city that focused on some of the more, well, hyper-efficient/busted as all gak Set Buildings, pop-culture hybrids, and/or now Evo buildings, etc... would be ranked lower than a far less efficient city that had say, half a dozen magic ressies+workshops & a couple max Lv'd factories...
The Former example would produce absolute gak-tons more goods & troops than the latter, and be overall a much more 'powerful' city, yet, due to using event buildings would be ranked well below it, because... "Reasons."