For what it's worth when I was J awards head I took both stats and GM write ups into consideration but the writeup was the main focus. To me it didn't seem like it was in the spirit of the most underrated award to have people winning the Ono and like three other awards. I'm not sure if that's still how they do things though.

As for renaming it, it's something I wish I would have done. A possible solution would be renaming it after @JackCross, the user who created Onoprienko, for all their great contributions to the site, which someone who was around when they were can speak more to. Another would be to find someone active and deserving of more recognition and name it after them.