User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Introducing the Wiki Analytics Admin Dashboard/@comment-30702882-20190807034721/@comment-5956954-20190807045919

An admin is definitely more capable, but the general user and what they can do is underestimated.

Unless the page is a MediaWiki one or protected to admins and content moderators only, anyone has near complete access to most practical tools and capabilities.

One example is helping make pages more mobile-friendly in response to the majority of mobile users coming along, which normal users can do with portable infoboxes.

Another is knowing where to prioritise your effort because this page is the most popular at the moment according to the analytics, which even anonymous users can do when allowed.

Users can also better guess which browser someone is on, so they know where to focus their testing for new features and designs for wiki pages.

The result is no absolute need for administrators. They just help when the going gets tough, from what I see.