We don’t have to take the ranks too seriously, and less of all the name associated to each one. I mean Sr. Member made me feel oldish at the time, and Hero is above my pompous gauge, not to mention Legendary. I get that names like these can be cool for many, and provide a sense of achievement, but ranks may be obtained through many paths, and the Hero and Legendary appellatives are essentially a measure of endurance on the forum (derived from Activity, and even more so now in relation to the obtaining Merits for most). They are not equal to a factual status in real life nor on the forum (with possibly some exceptions).

Honestly, dedicating the time I have dedicated here so far (for better or worse in terms of inputs and outputs) is rather a stretch for me, and the associated Hero rank is irrelevant to me. Nevertheless, it is one of the challenges here, and as such, it is undertaken, knowingly conflicting my personal time limits. One can derive many more challenges here that are knowledge related, that require specific skills and capabilities. Those are harder to obtain and probably more gratifying, albeit subject to more personal time and, dare I say, capabilities.

All in all, I would not enhance the difficulty in ranks per-se, but rather, if at all, device knowledge related features that can build-up a virtual CV (i.e. undertaking courses on such and such aspect of BTC).