Here's the thing: I do. Constantly.
As much as I can, whenever I can, possibly to the annoyance of my audience. I can't link anything here due to MoT status but if you do a quick search, you'd find that I had dedicated an ENTIRE 12 minute video to speak on the things that affect the objectivity of my reviews, the conflicts of interest, and in general just the reasons why you SHOULD NOT trust me. This videos is linked back to on many videos thereafter and emphasised on the video itself that one should watch it before coming to any hard conclusions.
My latest video, talking about the new Ranking List, is a prime example where I constantly emphasise not to take me as gospel amidst trying to explain the changes and the data analysis of it all. It's a fine balance between having to do disclaimers and putting out the actual content, and spending 5+ minutes telling people about disclaimers in a 10 minute video is not great for audience retention.
Barring the use of a pop up disclaimer page that activates when someone visits my ranking list, I'm not sure what else I can do. You call it a "cozy spot to hide behind", I call it the wall of text that nobody wants to read, no matter how hard I try.
But beyond that, there is a simple explanation to why you don't seem to agree with me "these days".
At the beginning, everyone is new. They see a new Ranking List and simply do not have the experience to refute it. I was like that at some point, so were you. You had not established the parameters in which you found something "good" or "bad", and therefore had no choice but to take the list at face value.
As you grow within the hobby, finding all of that out on your own, your own tastes and personal indicators of performance, you'd naturally diverge from everybody else. Not just me, not just your friends, EVERYONE. You as a person began understanding yourself more within the context of the hobby, forming your own opinions and biases, and I think that's beautiful. No two people would ever share the same set of opinions on a macro scale, and if we sat everyone down and had them do a ranking list themselves I am 100% confident we will never ever find a duplicate.
So no, the Ranking List didn't get worse. I was never a community consensus. You simply grew and found your own answers, as you should.