True, but most people understand that talking about whether a striker is good or not takes a little more effort than looking at the top scorer list, that's the bit you've ignored for 18months.
Strikers are judged on goals first and foremost.
Footballers are judged on their contribution to their team, of which strikers and goals is one useful metric.
It is the most useful metric, by a long way. The only one that truly matters. You are absolutely in denial of you think otherwise.
No goalscoring strikers 
About as useful as a goalkeeper who can pass out from the back but save next to nothing.
It really isn't, it used to be but the game played today relies on the striker doing a completely different job to the game you're harking back to where Shearer, Cole, Fowler, etc could be superstars where the only real job they had was to put the ball in the net.
Compare the premier league top scorer table for 1996 to today:
95/96 -
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/torschuetzenliste/wettbewerb/GB1/saison_id/1995/ - 25 players 5 aren't centre forwards.
25/26 -
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/torschuetzenliste/wettbewerb/GB1/plus/?saison_id=2025 - 10 aren't centre forwards.
Teams play to spread the goals around more, thanks to players like Ronaldinho we saw a global rise in wingers who wanted to drift in and get shots away, which almost immediately led to 2 of the greatest goalscorers in the history of the sport breaking through as, primarily, right wingers. In addition England in particular had a run of very high scoring central midfielders with the likes of Platt leading on to Scholes and then Lampard, Gerrard, etc, which again pulled young players away from the more specialist role of being a centre forward.
All combined the role of striker has changed from being the guy who finishes the move to being someone who plays an integral part in play for many phases before that. What you're trying to do is pretend non of that has ever happened and just fall back on "more goals means better striker" when the truth is that teams often score fewer goals if they have a striker who is only there to finish (Darren Bent was a fantastic example of this at most of his clubs).
