People can't just look at the table and say "I want whatever the #1 spot is". They will have to factor in their own individual considerations for their character level, their skills, what bonuses they might want from armor, and how realistic it is they could acquire the armor. There's just no way for a static table to take all of that into account.
Not all of us just want to look at a table and have it make a decision for us. Doing that leads to a cookie-cutter population running around DeCranum and Albrecht. (Sound familiar?) Some of us want to actually look at all the data and consider a range of choices.