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I think BW% is a good way to go, especially since it allows you to keep things in check a bit if you're gaining or losing weight (e.g. I have stacked on aforementioned reasonable amount of chonk, and even though my numbers aren't objectively good, the amount I am moving in every lift is better in terms of BW% than it was before. Pull ups are a lot harder at 115kg than they are at 80kg tho). And I'd like to cut back to 105 next year, so even if my lifts go down a bit I can keep them in check a bit with BW%.
wilks is great, but a lot of people don't (and IMO, unless it's important to you, shouldn't) test their 1rm so it becomes irrelevant. Estimated 1rm is acceptable but all of my estimated 1rms are lower than my actual ones because mentally I can try very hard for 1 rep, but for more than 3 I find it hard to properly dig in.
I used to get somewhat obsessive over EXRX / strengthlevel standards and where I fell on those and blah, but now I just try to get stronger than I used to be. I don't think I'm genetically gifted for strength sports so I'll always lag behind, but I'll never lag behind me not lifting weights.