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Hmmh, I don't think it's even elitism in this case. Feels to me like something else. But I'm the wrong person to ask, since I do not share that opinion.
I think your proposal with default subscriptions (or whatever it is exactly) is a solid idea, though. In fact, I've heard some people scroll through the "All" feed here on Lemmy and subsequently block the things they're not interested in. I'd say that's about the same direction. And I mean why not? We also have sorting by popular, and things are popular for a reason. So we might as well subscribe new users to the 10 most popular communities.
It's a bit more complicated than just that, we'd have to take some care not to entirely destroy diversity and pour some cement over the whole thing, or we end up with a small echo chamber of just lemmy.world and AskLemmy and NoStupidQuestions... But I guess there might be some solution in beween the extremes. And things might change due to the size of the platform. An "All" feed might still be useful at our current size, but might prove to become infeasable once we grow.