Not having replays required and mainly using ingame testing would lead to us being flaked out on. Required replays and optional testing fixes this problem, and also discourages troll applications.
The current application form can be as free form as the applicant wants it to be; they can write as much as they want in the "describe yourself" and "why you want to join Team Aikido" sections, so idk why even you're arguing about it. My only suggestion about it is that we should set a minimum sentence length for those two sections.