[freyir]

While I agree with your comment in principle, is any shopper happy with the utterly useless ranking system that everybody uses now?

Ranking a 4.9 star item with 500 reviews above a 5 star item is intuitive to many already, and will become intuition quickly for everyone else because it’s broadly more useful. The average customer doesn’t care that much how the sausage is made, they care about quality of the results.

Ranking items is basic functionality and it’s broken across the web. It shouldn’t be a feature that’s only available to users willing and able to fiddle with browser extensions.