>Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do.

I'm not agreeing with the grandfather comment, but there are "post-meritocracy" movements[0] in the world that fall more in line with the opinion that meritocracy as a concept is flawed.

[0]: https://postmeritocracy.org/ (sidenote: I agree with a lot of things in this link)