Rank already was worthless for determining anything but (possible) sky access, and even then, it's totally plausible for a rank 1 to have sky access via a nation swap. Usually, if you did have access, you'd say so in your search comment anyway (search comments have information that can actually matter, yet nobody pays attention to them, wtf?)
I'd prefer people to pay attention to things that actually affect one's performance, such as appropriate and leveled subjobs, for instance.