The problem there is that the quality a person is seeking becomes obfuscated, continually shifting into new, unknown subreddits in order to prevent the decay of content. Maybe there's no better way to do this (yet) but if the information a given individual viewed as quality were easily accessible it'd make the concept a lot more interesting to me as opposed to the level of misdirection subreddits seem to manifest.

While there is truth to this argument, like llambda I feel that the ever increasing search for quality subreddits leaves much to be desired. I don't like going to a site and then spending a large portion of the time avoiding a large and growing percentage of the user base. There's also the problem that most of the subreddits I like might not be able to produce a high quality version due to a high content established competitor.