I don't get this game's reward system

So let's put it this way:

There's a lobby with various hunters, all with various level of skill. They meet, they fight. The ones with better skills win, the others die.

The better ones then get access to better equipment, and better perks, meanwhile the others with skills not as good don't get neither.

So you give advantage to people who is already good, and disadvantage to the ones that are worse. How is that balanced? How os that supposed to work? Encountering 6 stars players with MN Avtomat and Auto-5 is not rare at all.

More money also means you have access from the start to hunters with more trait points. Free hunters don't even come with a full set of tools. And again, it's super rare to encounter a 6 star player with the skin of a free hunter.

Did I make my point clear? Has anyone a satisfactory explanation? Is there something I'm missing as why this system works the way it does?