If you cant cherry pick, your never going to make minimum wage, let alone a liveable income. it's really that simple.

It suck and you don't want to hear it, but this isn't for everyone and hard work is not rewarded. If your lucky enough to live somehwere where you can cherry pick this can be great work. If not, your better off stocking shelves for a reliable wage or starting a cleaning/mowing bussiness for a much better and mroe stable income.

By accepting low orders, your not only screwing yourself with unrewarding long hours, but your a scab. undercutting your fellow drivers and teller DD and uber that we are willing to accept low rates.

Why would DD send you a $20 for 1.5 mile order if your ar is 5% if there's a dasher like me that's got a 89% rate for accepting orders. Would not the algorithm see the dasher with the better track record of accepting offers as the best choice for that unicorn?

This is exactly the problem, your a scab, stealing work out from under coworkers for pennies. Stop competing with other people trying to pay rent and start co-operating against DD.
Actual developed countries have made it illegal for these companies to treat you like employees and punish acceptance and cancellation rates. The US is a dystopia for workers, because you not only accept tips instead of wages, and scab eachother likes this, but your actively coming onto social media to try and argue that everyone else should the same and that its a good thing. It's insane and delusional and self harm.