[2019] Mentor Rank seems like an impossible grind

Mentorship is gained the same way as Squad Leadership ribbons except only for BR30 or less toons, which is fine, but the issue with it now is that new players usually aren't amazingly squad-focused; even if you can herd all 11 of them into one base they aren't going to get a ton of squad EXP ticks, which makes the gain rate slow. On top of that is the fact that there aren't a ton of new players in Planetside, so we're on three layers of "if" now - if a lot of new players join the squad, if they go to the waypoint, if they help each other out. On top of that, I managed to get to about Mentor Rank 10 last night (though I assume some people could do much better), and it's reset straight back to 1 a little more than 12 hours later. Even if it's, say, 1 point per 2 hours, taking one day off of mentoring to actually enjoy the game instead of micromanage 11 clueless new players that don't even understand how to Redeploy could set you back three or four days worth of progress. Remember that you have to reach 200 Mentor score just to talk in the /new channel, which is probably the only part of the Mentor system that might improve the NPE at all. I get that it's supposed to be gated, but the current state just seems like it won't get used at all, and there might be one or two saints with no job and infinite patience that can stick a Silver rating. God help them if the decay scales.

(Also, the patch notes seem to lie: the Directive states that ribbons are for Squad EXP ticks, the patch notes say that it's for ranking up which is what Drill Sergeant currently does, not Mentorship.)