With barely any posts made as baggage, and with the content they provide, I honestly don’t see why you are complaining. All you need to do is see that most (obviously not all) merited posts have put in some time and thought into their elaboration. It’s not a rank-based matter, but rather more a content based one, and although rank may have some subliminal influence, it does by no means hinder the possibilities on lower ranks to be merited on decent content.

These are the current 31.860 profiles that have received merits at some point:

Notice that the number of merited profiles in the lower ranks is not negligible, and whilst from a perspective of proportion within each rank the numbers would shift noticeably, the knowledge on the forum and crypto, and the intent on providing decent enough content, tends to be greater in proportion as one moves through the ranks.
 
Getting some merits is not a challange. Earning a lot is. The real challange starts at mid-ranks.