But you can be stacked only if you are or were in the past producing really quality posts for a long time

Nothing else that I could add :)

let's be honest quite some shitty content reaching good rewards

That's due to the different starting points. In "real-life" some people are born rich. And it seems easy to them. But after years and decades, some of them fall down, some of the poor, honest people go up.
What is the only solution for us, non-royalty? Education, hard work, quality. At the beginning it's hard, but after several years, you can move abroad. After 5-10 years you can start your own company. After 20 - you can become the elite in all the meanings.

And that is what people should do here. Good quality authors should stay together and grow.
Imagine only 1000 good authors, photographers, STEM, craftsman... By the summer, it's 1.000.000 power.
And that could be the avalanche.

If we fall into the grey, shady, low-quality hi-quantity, we are becoming one of those we hate now.