No player stats?

I was reading about some WoW players getting to max level through gathering, without a single kill on their record, and that got me thinking... Do we have any interesting stats like this in GW2? IIRC, Anet released a long time ago, how much time players spent on mounts, so there must be something in the backend players cannot see. It’d be cool if players can see individual player stats.

How many hours did I spend in each map? How many of each metas/world bosses have I done? How many enemies have I killed? How many nodes have I gathered? How much time did I spend on each mount?

The devs do collect metrics but they don't release them to the public because they could potentially be abused.

It is entirely possible to level to 80 via crafting alone.

The only character stats you can check for yourself are how old the character is (/age) and how often it died (/deaths). Everything else is hidden. We don't know which metrics ANet collects.

Based on what we have seen I think Anet are capable of collecting and tracking huge amounts of data. For example they've produced infographics showing things like the total time spent riding each mount and the enemies with the highest and lowest kill to death ratio. In interviews they've mentioned being able to produce heat maps which show where players spend most of their time in the game and in each map, and being able to identify bots by tracking the paths characters take and spotting the ones which are always the same down to the exact steps (something a human couldn't do if they tried but a computer needs special programming to avoid).

The question is how easy it is to collate and share that. It's likely a lot of those infographics and things are produced manually by someone running the reports and queries and possibly combining bits from different reports to get the end result. They'd probably have to build and maintain a new system to report on all this stuff, and then the question becomes whether it's worth the time that would require for what's basically trivia.

They said last time it takes a fair bit of time to collate and present such info, hence why it only gets shown on special occasions

A lot of info can be obtained via GW efficiency. They provide a lot of info and date albeit not everything you want.

I’d rather have the devs focus more on content than stats.