Apart from the rest I think it's just questionable to assume someone can (in general) only "classify" weaker players.but at least he should refrain from classfying others who are better than him. Then I will throw my opinion, 39 players above Nili are very top players.
I would proly trust Nilis top 15 Ranking more then f.e a top 15 Ranking made by MbL.
Also smth which most seem to forget is that Nili didn't want to concentrate on casting anymore, so I guess it's understandable if he says he doesn't want to cast f.e RO32 Games, especially since he focuses on AoE4.
Still he could have obv. phrased it better without calling any specific names, especially since he always talks about respect on WTF-Streams.
Well then he better should make the announcement on one of his teammates streams, since I doubt the AoE4 Viewers on his stream care much about an aoe2 announcement.And considering his team mates have recently "abandoned" AoE 4 I'd be very surprised if it's AoE 4...
It would be rly weird if he all of a sudden turns back to aoe2 with something big after leaving completely.
Apart from the GL-Charity Stream and casting the final KotD-Rounds and a bit of dodgeball with Dave his last "normal" aoe2 Stream was on the 30th October warmup for kotd qualifiers.