1200 is the masters rating Mickin, get with the program!
Is FIDE Corrupt?
Hold up I looked through your list and I noticed something important they're all 40+ years old. People get worse with age maybe they used to be 2500+ and their ratings have dropped with age.
1200 is not even close to what people consider expert level.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/about-chess-ratings
I'm just an amateur?
I'm near 1200 in Blitz. An expert rating should be enough to have an opinion on these things. Educate yourself: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/the-curious-case-of-1200-the-expert-s-rating
Do I know what norms are? Please don't insult me, I know all about norms.
1200 is not an expert rating, it is "I got my feet a bit wet" rating.
1200 is "the expert's rating". I've written about it extensively. It's now almost universally accepted as the expert's rating. There's no need to challenge reality.
Wow glad to know 1200 is the standard for being considered an expert, I have played tourn. chess for 40 years now and my highest rating was 1949 all this time I thought I was just an A class player when in reality according to this I am really a super expert, pretty cool! Now I can really brag to my friends
" I posted a thrilling thread discussing exactly how easy is it to become a GM. "
And yet your rating is still around 1200. In your posts you often tell us you know "exactly" things where you obviously haven't done your homework and haven't bothered to learn the whole story. Getting a 2500 rating has NEVER, N-E-V-E-R been the sole criteria for a GM title.
So WHY are you claiming it to be so? You said you had a "assumption." And then you continue as if that assumption must be true! Remember that if you ASS/U/me you often make U into something!
This is like assuming you win a medal if you finish an Olympic race, then call the organizers corrupt when only 1st, 2nd, and 3rd get medals!