A rose by any other name? My complaint would be the same, that averages don’t apply to most individuals.
The colleges buying the Landscape scores will do whatever they want with them, although it would be interesting to see what the guidelines are and why guidelines are necessary.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-08-27/college-board-sat-adversity-score This article on the topic mentions Yale increasing its Pell grant recipients using the former Environmental aka Adversity score. Why not simply unblind need to find the Pell recipients? That would be more accurate. (Pell numbers now play a larger role in US News rankings than in the past.)