@FinalBoss_FGC a long time ago back in mk9 days when
@Pig Of The Hut was making a lot of top 8s and top 3s I was invited to an Xbox 360 party chat by a mutual acquaintance and at the time I was playing Kenshi and before that Sonya and mileena so I had watched a lot of pigs matches. I asked him if he would play and critique and show me meta for the characters he was better at using. He didn't know me from Adam and already had a line of D riders and he actually left a king and played me for about an hour .
What I'm getting at is that while I feel like there is a lot of truth to better players wanting to play with other top level players it doesn't mean they will not ever play you either. You have to see both sides. While people like forever king are used to playing labbing and learning one way others including top players feel like they learn and improve the most when playing the highest competition. Couple that with being well known and there is a lot of players who want and ask for games you simply can't accommodate everyone all the time and still have enough time to get the games in with the players you want to play to improve your own game.
I know that is a part of it because if I get online I can have 5 or 6 people wanting games or a runback so if that's me I can imagine what a msg inbox looks like when your placing top 8 frequently.
I don't condone putting someone down for wanting games either but Brady stirred up a whole lot of shit with his video and while it exists it's not fair for someone who is low level to mid level to be entitled to long set with anyone. Also to the Brady point I turned off that video a ways in because the crap he was crying about he would tirn right around and do it to someone he didn't think was "worthy"...
Anyways the rest of your post was extremely accurate and I couldn't agree more .