re: BMI

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Probably true, however BMI is way better than the average person thinks. Even an extraordinarily fit large athlete (defensive linemen, bodybuilders, upper weight category strength athletes, etc.) will have downsides to a high BMI. Your joints, particularly the lower extremity joints, DGAF how much muscle you're carrying. Likewise, all the organ systems are stressed with excess weight, even if it is a lot of "good" weight.

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I used to think that but the doctors at barbell medicine proved me wrong on this with posting a bunch studies showing your organs are not stressed from the extra muscle

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I know from your posts you have an extraordinary depth of experience in some of these issues, but it is a lot of "inside baseball" and very specialized as you have already conceded to a degree, even in this thread.

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The sport’s specialized part of all my knowledge is a new thing. 99% of my training is more gen pop/aethetics

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BMI (and I was skeptical myself back in the day) IS a good measurement because of the research that has been done. Likewise, there is also good research on waist size (as a gauge of visceral fat). It should go without saying that carrying large amounts of lean muscle (which has positives of its own to balance versus a more ideal BMI) instead of visceral fat (which has fewer positives and far more negatives) is preferable for health, but not without disadvantages of its own.

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Only negatives would be lower joints like ankles and that would still be not that much and far outweighed but if natural you are not gonna get crazy ffmi anyways. That’s why I said waist size is better for those that lift. For 95-98% of people bmi is more than fine