Right, it means different things to different people. Which is exactly why it gets old hearing people (not you in particular) saying "until you go through a 2k round count weekend class your rifle isn't reliable". Sure it is, maybe not 2k rounds without maint reliable, but for that user maybe. It also means I tire of hearing the opposite.. "I bought a rifle last week and put a mag through without jams, it didn't cost $500 and it's reliable" comments.
I would argue that for someone who needs maybe 100 rounds without failure knowing that it will go to 2k once is merely a novelty; a bragging point. Knowing that it will go 200rds without failure ten times would be much more reassuring to me. Now if you can do the same 2k string of fire 10-12x a year, then you're getting somewhere; and it means more than "Oh, I went to 2k once!" Am I making any sense?
Going to 2000 rounds once is a smaller sample size than going to 200 rounds 10 times. Going to 2k 10 times, is way smaller than going to 200rds 100 times.
However, if you are going into battle, knowing your rifle would go to 200rds means little to you, since you carry more than that on you, with more supplies behind, and getting in a battle that could very well last a couple days, and actually get close to 2000 rounds before you can take down and inspect is on the daily agenda... then you want to know your equipment is up to that.
