It is a fail gearing strategy to keep throwing gear at the player who has already had the most gear thrown at him. But often it was done this way when master loot was a thing, because of course he was the most productive on the team, because his buddies who didn’t even realize they were hurting their raid team’s progression were gearing him up instead of players who needed those upgrades badly.
If you think hurting badly geared people in order to give teensy upgrades to reward somebody you don’t even know is the right thing to do, I still don’t want to be right.
But I know there are people who have gone to great lengths to come up with systems they would like implemented to prevent undeserving people from getting gear traded to them by generous strangers. No doubt you, like those people, consider generosity to be a weakness, and bad gear on a newly leveled player to be a sign that they are undeserving and should get nothing. Ever.
Good luck on your crusade against helping people. You’re going to need it.