If you are already of a high ranked position then most likely you like the recent stricter rules as you don't need to jump through the hoops yourself to claim merit and be able to rank up anymore, but when i look through the profiles of most of the higher ranked members i doubt more than a handful of them would be able to progress past the rank of Jr member themselves with the current framework were they not already ranked up
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topusersatclick that link - then come back here and apologise to us all for being a moaning used tampon. Any one of us on that list could rank up to Jr member in a week if we so chose to make the effort to gain the required merits, it isn't that fucking hard.