Problem with SOH is that I spend far less than one percent of my time standing over the bike. So I mostly just care about how it fits and handles for me. My wife is of the old school were she pushes off and swings over the saddle, she spends pretty much zero time standing over. i never liked doing that after I got traps on the pedal. Do people still do that with bindings?

What I do agree with is that real numbers are more useful to me that "sizes". In many cases the numbers the bike is sold with do not exist on the bike itself. The bikes are what they are. Stuff in a catalog is marketing. If they think people want a certain wheel base number, they give it to them, knowing everyone else is playing the same game.