I'm sure this is something id want to do themselves. There should be little need for 3rd party interfererence with this game.

They could make it so people can do this, but they can also make it so people can't harvest this stuff in an easy way. So I say the latter.

unless the stats undergo a drastic improvement (they're fucking awful at the moment) then what's the point?

Stats are not just awful.
On one of their last patch they removed the option to view player statistic duel based on played maps. For instance, stats used to be kinda:
duel 666
dm6 333 wins 0, losses 333
t4 333 wins 0, losses all, u loser

I had about 60% of the matches played on dm6, so I wanted to play more t4 to balance the number of played matches and the general skill. Now, I will just have to blindly play till 'most played map' field will show vertical vengeance instead campground redux.
It just removed a little bit my motivation, already.