The Feature statistics widget does not only provide statistics of features, but also of targets and metas. Since this is useful, it would make sense to rename it to Variable Statistics. At the same time, the inconsistency in column naming between its visualization window and the Statistics output can be addressed. In the visualization window, the header of the column is Name, while in the Statistics output, its header is Feature. It would be better to use Variable in both cases.
As a use case, consider this workflow I created for collaborative recommendation from user ratings of books (i.e., finding users with similar taste, based on their ratings, then recommend the books they rated highly but haven't already been rated by the reference) for teaching purposes:

Here, in the Select Columns before merge, I have to tell my students to set "Feature" as meta variable, which is totally confusing ...