This reality and the conditions that pertain to it mean that you can float on the seas of authority
bloat that fuels your vertical, but the efforts that it requires is simply not worth it to build any kind of sustained ranking,
as too many levers must float in your favor — such
as the website where your link was originally hosted maintaining it's weight before being pillaged by other SEOs capable of basic competitive research — or your
competitors being bad enough to not have an SEO who has heard of competitive research — in order for it to be a worthwhile strategy.