I'm not sure what you mean. You think it is unimportant if people do not understand the tools they use to draw conclusions from their data? The presence of the

I'm not sure what you mean. You think it is unimportant if people do not understand the tools they use to draw conclusions from their data? The presence of the misunderstood p-value is just the easiest, most obvious heuristic for "authors and/or reviewers do not know how to analyze their data".