The reason this matters is that users who were instrumental to Bitcoin like early developers and people who have been shunned from the community as it evolved are penalized by the way Recognition Rank is scored. Vod's argument is that newer users here don't recognize the early names. I don't believe this to be true.
Roger Ver has a Recognition Rank of >1000 &
Gavin Andresen has a Recognition Rank of 865, while
abhiseshakana has a Recognition Rank of 333. Which names do you recognize? What would the ranks be if the original merit were included in the algorithm?
How do you propose users should be ranked then? I agree with your points, but it's easy to make complaints and harder to find solutions. Aside from creating some sort of centralized list, I don't think there's a statistic based way to approach this. Perhaps those with earlier registration dates could gain some recognition points, but other issues would arise from that.