If you want to know why so many people are cloying sycophants to the mega-npubs:

The mega-npubs are the Nostr algo.

There's like 10 accounts, where, if they boost your stuff, thousands of people see it. If they don't, dozens of people see it. So everyone hangs around them and licks their toes.

Well, I don't, but I've got bad social skills.