Oh I agree 100%. I'm doing back-testing, trying to anyways. But I agree one cannot rely on that, its just for fun really. I really plan on selling call it just 1 option each week over the course of the year to see the results.
Backtests will make your future returns look overly optimistic. Current implied volatility generally does a decent job of predicting future volatility, though not so much in times of extreme panic or complacency. Net-net, your strategy of selling cash secured puts in times of high volatility is historically very profitable, but once implied volatility goes down again it will not be profitable.