If your only incentive to post was to reach 'Simp Council', wouldn't you have stopped posting once you reached it? Your incentive to post should be to give back to a community that offers you so much for free (even if it's pretty clear that not everyone feels that way and are content with never contributing).
I agree in parts, I don't think number of posts is a good metric to rank people as it just encourages people to spam in order to get to 222. Someone with 100 posts and 10k+ likes did much more for the community than someone with 222 posts and 2222 likes imo. I don't care too much about the Simp Council, only miss my nickname effects, but just leaving my 2 cents as I think this is an odd change.