A lot of the lower-ranked sects kept losing their trained disciples to other competitors leaving them in a stagnated state. While others turned their own quotas into a marketing scheme.
They'd hawk their quotas to the highest bidders. Organizations would buy those spots from each other so they could get more slots.
Since these organizations were given autonomy on who to send and the Order didn't have a name list of their members, it was easy to sneak a non-member under the Order's nose.
However, in the next three months, the new rules for the quotas will be put into effect. All members in the quota system would have to serve their organizations for 10 years before they could leave or pay the Order an equivalent amount to the resources that were spent on them during those three years.