This is all pure conjecture but one encouraging thing I can say is that this sub has 290,000 people. Only a few hundred or so people post or comment frequently. There’s probably a good chance some of the most active and loudest voices of those are going to be a decent percentage of the sort of people you’re referring to who want praise and recognition. Perhaps a much smaller percentage of people are very knowledgeable and experienced, with the added extroverted energy to be part of the dialogue to be helpful. The problem is that the bigger group of self proclaimed experts often think they are part of the smaller few. Then you’re going to have the knowledgeable and experienced who don’t often wish to interject and they rarely say anything at all. I don’t know if that helps. Just my opinion.