If there’s 10,000 players and only ~50 of them are high enough level to be in the zone with black lotus (one of the most rare and valuable resources in the game), you obviously can get more than if 2-3k of those players were 60. This is compounded by the fact that with layering, you can double/triple up on those mats the longer you are level capped. You can literally farm the entirety of your 2 years of lotus by being 60 early. There are various aspects of the game like this, but please, tell me more about how knowledgeable you are about vanilla.