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At a glance, the prerequisites required for the various critical feats seem dramatically outsized for the conditions they inflict. You need BAB +9 to even get the prerequisite feat, Critical Focus, let alone meet the prerequisites of the feats themselves.
I allow that I may be missing some sort of value calculation, so what I'm asking is whether there is a good reason for the prerequisites to be so high, and so narrowly limited in some cases to characters like 15th-level fighters.
I play a fighter who dual-wields scimitars. I went for a crit build, and just recently got high enough level to pick up Bleeding Critical. The very first combat after taking Bleeding Critical I managed to land two critical hits in the first round of combat against a "miniboss" that had DR... The boss nearly bled to death before having to retreat. 4d6 bleed damage every round on top of other damage coming in.
I would say that the level requirement for the critical feats is justified.