I see you've added some clarifications of common misconceptions to the OP, but you missed one: A crit does not guarantee knockback, the absence of a crit does not guarantee the absence of knockback, a crit only increases the already existing chance of knockback, and not by much. When you max crit, the increase in the chance of this "problem" occurring is even smaller than the barely noticeable increase in your damage.
Will consider this.
Random conspiracy theory: all the people claiming crit is bad for scythes are just lanns trying to make themselves seem more useful in comparison, by convincing scythe users that dmg=bad.
Good one xD