Boeing optimum altitude and recommended altitude. Why does optimum not consider wind?
 

Why is it that the optimum altitude doesn’t consider the wind?

Optimum altitude is reasonably independent of weather conditions - and so can be readily determined using a fairly generic formula.
Including winds means you'll get a different answer every day - and includes data (winds at altitude) that is often not readily available.

In todays it is normal SOP to download a full windprofile for the whole route. If that is available, why wouldn't the FMCG not use it?

Recommended altitude wasn’t originally in our 757/67 FMCs

We had optimum and max, normally you wouldn’t want to go higher than 2000 above optimum so leaving that parameter in as a baseline is still useful

Which aircraft type?

AFAIK the term optimum altitude is used across many different Boeing types, but will indicate the same parameter. It was "created" for fleets starting from the 737-classic and still remains available on ie B777 (some have the ability to upload wind data inflight, some don't). There are always wind/altitude tradeoff tables that can be used to have more correct information.

Some Boeing FMCs provide "recommened" altitudes that take wind into account for a limited section in front of the route (I believe the 777 has this indicated), as wind data is considered only a forecast.