I want people with less than 200CP to be allowed to participate. I also want the 400+ crowd to be allowed as well. I think that 200 CP way to big of a prize to play for against a watered down field, a player cap, and 75 bo3 format lowering the amount of luck that may affect the outcome.
Thank you for clarifying your stance; I did not "get" that from earlier posts, and now I can understand your posts better.
There is no logical reason why one group should be excluded over another, not within the confines of any argument the pokemon staff has pointed out.
The nature of tournament play is akin to grading on a curve; no matter how good or bad everyone performs, the outcomes are differentiated significantly. Even in the improbable event (pardon the pun) that a tournament was filled with players of perfectly equal capacity, one player is still going to come in first and one player is still going to come in last place... even though they are actually equals! This is true not only of Pokémon, but of any such tournament, though in games like TCGs (for this hypothetical that explains an underlying concept) assume players all using identical decks. Now in the real world, this isn't happening... but it illustrates the concept that sometimes people who deserve points don't get them, and some that deserve them less do, and that is just how life is.
Thus when it comes to earning points and invites in general, it is at least possible for "deserving" players to miss out because there were two such players in the final... even if they weren't equals. In a perfect world we could determine precisely from the entire population the best players in the world and get them to the tournament to let them compete for victory.
As we don't live in such a world and it is worse having an empty seat than having someone under qualified fill it, it makes sense to cast the net wide and get "the best of the rest". There is also my earlier point; we can't be sure that the player missing Worlds by one point is any less deserving of a slot than the one who only just meets the requirement... and sadly given the nature of the game, than some that handily exceed the minimum required. It is an imperfect world we live in.
tl;dr: The LCQ not only provides additional "value" for US Nationals, but it also provides a safety net to improve qualified turnout for worlds and avoid leaving someone out because of something like (for example) a U.S. player finishing with 399 instead of 400+ because of a determining game that finished under less-than-ideal circumstances (lucky top deck, coin flip, sudden death overtime) or because they happened to be too ill to go to a tournament*. I know there is more to the discussion but this is foundational to those additional points of contention.
*Seriously, I want players who are ill to know they can risk staying home. I went to an official-but-smaller-venue tournament once where a name level player showed up and dominated... which is what it is. The fact that he then puked over a good chunk of the venue's Men's Restroom and passed what he had onto others was not cool.