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... has the worst ranking
How's it worse or better than some no name's ranking? At least it's not a 20-minutes video for something that could be a 10 items list.
You don't need a name to do anything.
Imagine there's a nobody and he writes a new kernel - and today he is linus.
What you're saying is that the author has made such a revolutionary video that solves problems no other video can solve, that in 30 years this video will be maintained by some of the most brilliant minds on Earth. In other words, the analogy is really, really bad.
They don't rank distributions. At least not by quality. Rather, they list the popular ones (by clicks) and provide resources for each one. It's notoriously difficult to get user statistics on FOSS, which usually costs nothing and is very privacy-focused.