You have quoted what I said, so I guess your message is aimed at me.
I’ll explain why I asked for what I did. You say that PR isn’t everything and this is true; it doesn’t always equate to traffic. However, a site with PR0 represents that it is newly established and is unlikely to already have great traffic figures. Furthermore, the traffic you are going to get coming from a links page of a newly established site is minimal at best. Therefore, the only reason I want to link to you is for SEO, not traffic.
I would be very surprised if you link pages (not your homepage) become PR3 at the first update for your site also.
I’m sure you can also tell that the site I offered you a link on was not thrown together in a couple hours!