1. The top 10, like any poll, is not enough of a pool of players to make a determination, imo.
If you want unbiased results look at the top 100 or top 200 or 500.
Why not the top 5,000 then?
With your logic, one could object that if the top 5000 all have the Forbidden City, the next million may not have it and therefore the top 5000 means “nothing” as well.
The problem is, this argument is flawed.
There’s 4 wonders of the same age as the FC. Do you want to know what is the probability that 8 players out of 10 randomly picked the same wonder out of 4 choices?
If I show you that that probability is very small, would you be convinced that these guys chose (and kept) the FC for a reason?
And once you accept that the top 10 players chose the FC for a reason, would you agree that maybe they know more than you and I on what wonder is best at high level?
By the way, I had a few more minutes of my life to waste and I checked players from 11 to 20. Another 8 of them have the FC. That makes 16 (sixteen) out of the top 20 in the world.
Would you also like to know what the probability is, among 20 players, to have 16 of them randomly pick the same wonder out of 4? You may be surprised by how small that number is.
You, on the other hand, seem to have a pretty good opinion about that so I'll defer to your expertise on the matter. Çlearly, you have plenty of investigative knowledge on these people.
Either that, or you're just getting upset because l had the audacity to question something you said. My bad. I humbly prostrate myself at the altar of your indignation.
Sorry to see you are becoming sarcastic. The topic was indeed quite simple. The original poster wanted to know if the FC is “useless” at high levels, and clearly it is not.
I’m not getting upset, actually I’m having fun.
Peace, and have a good day!