Power levels aren’t bullshit. They always accurately tell who’s the stronger fighter
Toriyama even said he wrote them out of the story because it would let the reader know immediately how the fight would go down
This. It's basically another stupid meme created by TFS that retards went all on about because "It's cool to point out how much better the retarded Abridged series is".
As @Derpmaster9000 stated, the power levels themselves was never the issue, the actual issue that Toriyama wanted to point out is that the NUMBERS that you can see doesn't matter because anyone who knows how to hide their Ki can not only do so but explicitly withhold it until the last second for an extra boost in strength for maximum damage or defense.
THAT'S what Toriyama was always talking about but people got way too enamored with "bigger numbers" rather than "Characters can literally hide how truly strong they are until they decide to do so"