even if you are a better poster how much above average you think you'd be? will you get double the amount an average user gets? triple? it would still take you much more than it did in the old system.
That's a Good Thing. If users would rank up as quickly as before, then the merit system would have failed. But now merit seems to work as intended: people who don't post useful stuff won't rank up (which means that they won't make it into signature campaigns, which means they no longer have any incentive to shitpost). As for those who do post useful stuff, why would the time factor be a problem? I don't mind if it'll take me 20 years to become legendary, as
I can read and post just fine as member. As I hinted, it's not a human right to become legendary with close to zero effort.