Since OP thinks the world is lazy just because they finished in a relatively decent amount of time let quantify this a little differently.
Friend A: resubbed out of the blue, did 60 fates total has all 12 atma
Myself: did 476 fates to get 12
Friend B: going on 1800 fates (took the week off) is currently 3/12
That is a range of 20% (lucky) > 2% (expected) > 0.5%

The argument that the 1.0 drop system is mute because there was just as much backlash against that as well. The melds weren't as bad because we all knew, when the high end of the rng scale was coming since it was based off you birthday and deity