Phil Sandifer wrote:
[[WP:FA]] and to a lesser extent [[WP:GA]], which, like RFA, suffer from such a wildly disparate set of standards that the process of passing them is more a process of politics than of actual quality.
Fortunately, unlike the rest of the problematic policies and guidelines you mention it's easy and harmless to just do what I do and ignore the entire concept. I don't care whether articles I work on get the little star sticker or not, improvements to an article are worth making purely for their own sake.
I do the same thing with "stub sorting" these days. I added a bit of CSS to my skin to make stub templates vanish from my sight and let other editors waste their time as they see fit. :)