You're kidding, right? I know what you're trying to say but you really need ti understand the terminology.

Variance is the effect of probability on short term results. The nature of probability means that from time to time, you're going to get bunches of negative variance and bunches of positive variance, and it's this sense that is most used on FTR.

But you also have to understand that EVERY player is equally affected by variance, no matter how bad or good they are. Let's assume we have the perfect player, as you rather generously seem to think exists, above. This player - I'll call him Lukie - makes +EV moves on every hand. Now, this being poker, there'll be a good number - a majority, maybe - of hands where he is 55% or 60% favourite. What this means is that he's going to lose a large minority of these hands. Every now and again - I'm not mathematically inclined enough to work out exactly HOW often - he will lose five, seven, even ten 55/45s in a row DESPITE PLAYING PERFECT POKER. This is variance.

If playing well vs playing badly was nothing more than playing the near nuts versus a dude with 2 outs, then yes, negative variance would be very, very rare indeed. Similarly, if there were fish out there who did nothing BUT chase 2-outers, well, they'd last a split second in poker terms. In reality, poker is much, much more about decisions - made with incomplete information - where if you're 70% favourite you should be ecstatic.