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Well the spreadsheets and visio diagrams are way more than I have put into organizing myself. I just print some tabs or memorize a scale shape and go on with my routine. I thinks some of your method, if I adopt it will make me more mindful of what I am doing and perhaps translate into greater understanding.
As far as what makes a new/intermediate/advanced player. I can see where you are coming from and some of the detachment from their early learning that some of the more virtuostic types have. I think those that teach are constantly reminded, and that helps keep them grounded in some ways.
In the old forum @Mike-Gaurnier had an interesting take on that whole beginner – intermediate – advanced idea, that I found refreshing. There are some things I am intermediate at, and some things that I am a beginner at, but his take is that this labeling has a detrimental effect on how one sees themselves as a player. I have taken to using “more practiced” and “less practiced” to describe where I am at. I think that type of thinking is healthy, and leads to knowing that you CAN do a thing if you put in the practice, rather than the thought that you can’t do a thing.