I will share my opinion what I think
Look i overall think it's really biased

What I discover that
Senior memeber generally send their Merit to other Senior memeber only
even you see the post of other Sen. Member not good still they send the Merit and they expect the other memeber to sent them back as well

On the other hand you took your time understand the thing and then write your post and it goes un-noticed
But on the other side a post just below your post and it just say
Ya Really cool I like it/or full ai generated
And you will see they got merit
it hurt isn't

And the point is that they will say you need to write good Quality & helpful post
to get merit but if you check their profile then you observe your post has more meaningful then there
And you can't say hey look my post & see if you like it merit me

But if a newbie even get a single merit after writing good Quality post I remembered when I get my first merit I am really happy for almost a month

So to get the attention of there hard Work they started to create topic and post and then some Senior memeber say you know like that we should not allow newbies to create topic post....

Isn't that a mental pressure or kind of frustrating

I understand that sending merit to right person is really hard
But the best thing we can do is it to Stop Expecting that's the only Solution and keep ourself frustrated
Please no Hate no harm to Anyone just my opinion 🙂‍↔️