I never understood why we are using the current system. It doesn't make sense that if you want to combine goals and assists into one system, that you would give the same importance to assists and goals, specially since there is a possibility of 2 assists per goal and an average year after year of roughly 1.8 assists/goal.
And why is it 2 assists and not 1 or 3 or 4? The 2 assists system is pretty random tbh. Yes, sometimes the 2nd assits is more important than the first, but that can also be said for the 3rd/4th assist in a lot of situations like when a defenseman does a great and difficult pass, just to see forwards do a bunch of much easier passes in offensive zone. By giving 2 assists you without a doubt give points that aren't as important as goals and good primary assists on a constant basis.
If they really want to keep the points system imo, it would be much better to switch to a system similar to what is described in this thread, or just drop the 2nd assist and only keep one like in other similar sports (who don't mix in goals with assists btw, and keep them as seperate, and while good passers are always highly regarded in other sports, goals are always considered more important).
Also, there is no denying that it is much harder to score goals than it is to pass the puck. You don't need to be genius to realize that just by analyzing what needs to be done to achieve both. And if you are not convinced, just look at the stats of how many players had 50 goals seasons VS how many players had 50 assists seasons for example, same with 60,70,80,90,100, etc.