In defense of making character sheets for enemies

Many times on this subreddit, someone will off-handedly mention that they are making a character sheet for their villain character. It's never the point of the actual post, but it's always a thing that people jump on, and the whole comment section becomes light with people saying that you're not supposed to make a character sheet for your enemies, you're supposed to create a monster stat block, and that you shouldn't treat your enemies like players.

I disagree for 4 reasons

1. A lot of DMs are former players who have made character sheets before, but have never made an NPC stat block before. I don't think it's unreasonable for them to do something the way they understand and is easy for them, instead of creating a character stat block that is technically correct to the way it's done in the books. No one else sees whether they created a character sheet or a stat block, so it doesn't matter.

2. Stat locks are simplified. And yes, that is the entire point, and I am aware of that. But, sometimes you want your enemy to use different feats or class features that normally wouldn't be on the stat block, and the easiest way to keep those interesting features organized is to just make a character sheet.

3. If you're using digital tools like DnDBeyond, the character builder objectively has a better UI than the Homebrew monster stat block builder. Not only that, but the character she also has the ability to edit it to monitor HP, spell slots, and once a day abilities, and the stat block doesn't.

4. People will argue that you want to build a monster stat block specifically, to get used to making your enemies a certain CR, and make sure that you can balance your enemy creatures against the players. Yet the very same people who say that would just as soon turn around and argue that the CR system is bullshit and isn't a reliable way to gauge difficulty. Former players understand the power curve of a leveled player character, but the power curve of an NPC statlock is less obvious. So it's actually more useful to use a leveled player character sheet that they understand the power of.

I'm not saying everyone should start making character sheets instead of NPC stat blocks. But seeing someone ask for help, only to get mobbed with comments unrelated to their actual question by people being pedantic about how they prepare their encounters is unhelpful, and should stop.