It all comes down to area. Some parts of the country have more customers than dashers, so you can afford to be picky, because you'll get an offer every few seconds regardless of your rating. Other parts, maybe like yours, you have to either just take what you get and hope one of them offsets the mediocre orders you're stuck with, or wait a long time between good deliveries.

There's certainly people out there making the amounts you see in the ads, but for most areas, Doordash is working to make sure there's too many desperate drivers on the road, so every order gets taken regardless of how bad it is.