^ Not Wilchq though, it was Amai.
I see your point that concerns should have been raised once the first not-community-selected set came out. While I'm not familiar with all maps in that batch I'm pretty sure that it contains maps that don't feature outstanding content as well just like the much critized Red Like Roses.
Taking Big Money, wew, there are entire sections that are stupid 1/2 symmetric fullscreenjumps that are about as good as some parts in Red Like Roses I suppose.
First step in forcing a push to maps of higher quality in the loved section would be to move your own loved maps that you don't consider good enough to the graveyard and make a public statement on why you don't think they belong there.
And let's be honest, if BD wasn't the 7* drama mapper of 2012 and if Big Money wasn't the April's fool thing back then, it would be very unlikely to see that map in the loved section either.
I wouldn't call that straight up elitism though, rather a lack of self-reflection. Because when people think of elite-mappers they would probably not think of BD but rather of lfj, RLC, fanzhen, Lan Wings and the likes. BD is an attentionwhore after all, he knows that and he should know better.
I think it is very stupid and generalising to call insufferable elitism when a lot of mappers didn't give such lame statements as quoted in your OP. Those are 3 mappers but is that representative of our community? I don't think so.
Ultimately it comes down to what CXu said~