A meaningful metric requires a little rigor.
When people mention these things like "Messi had more dribbles than Lewandowski," do they actually know what the correlation between dribbles and game outcomes is? How much variance it has? How it is affected by position, gameplay, tactics, league? Do they have a list that sorts 'dribbles' and can compare the names there to at least an idea of who the 'best players in the world' are, and see if there is a match? Or is simply a number that was found to be bigger for one player than the other? This is why people get annoyed at this use of 'stats', it's totally arbitrary.
There isn't a single metric you can always use to pick a Balon D'Or winner because they all have various biases you'd have to 'correct' for. But I can suggest that when one guys breaks his league's goalscoring record, and the other guy is the top goalscorer with the second lowest goals tally in the last decade, they probably didn't have the same level of performance.
Even if the dribbles don't contribute to game outcomes, there's no questioning the fact that Messi is a better dribbler than Lewa. Usually the amount of dribbles completed and successful dribbles is a metric used to come to the conclusion that one player is a better dribbler than the other. Dribbling contributes to one player being better at football than the other player, just like passing, first touch, creativity, shooting etc. Now if one player is better statistically at all these things, it's fairly easy to deduce the fact that he's a better player. Which is what the Balon D'or recognises, the best football player in the world. Not the guy who scored the most goals.
But since you want to get all technical and say there are biases, what about the level of the majority of the opponents of the said league ? is that not a bias ?
The fact of the matter is simple, Lewa's only claim to the balon D'or is scoring more goals, nothing else helps his case which is why it's not a robbery. Personally, I can see Lewa's argument and I can see Messi's argument but the fact that people are making it out to be some big 'robbery' is completely wrong.
You're a Madrid fan, Zidane is undoubtedly one of the best midfielders and players of all time and I'm sure you agree, is Lampard a better 'player' because he scored more goals ? Or is Zidane better because he's better at literally every other aspect of being a footballer ?