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Except a weak mob rarely forms. You've basically picked one or two examples that are completely out of context while neglecting to mention that someone like James made the merge twice in a row, as did Ozzy, and as did Jason and Erik. And as for China, the only reason there weren't a lot of strong men at the merge was because there weren't a lot of strong men cast to begin with. Let's look at the recent seasons to see how legitimate your claims are:

Micronesia: The women teamed up because they knew that they couldn't compete against the men, physically. Amanda was still a strong competitor.
China: The women and Todd did the same thing in this season. Peih-Gee and Amanda were both strong competitors.
Fiji: Boo, Dreamz, and Yau-Man were all physically strong, as was Earl, to an extent.
Cook Islands: Adam, Ozzy, and Yul were all alpha males.
Exile Island: Aras and Terry were constantly competing against one another to see who was best. Danielle was pretty good too.
Guatemala: The women and Rafe banded together to take out threats. Cindy, Steph, and Danni were all strong.
Palau: Tom and Ian were extreme alpha males.
Vanuatu: The women almost took out all the men. Chris was strong and Eliza/Julie were not bad either.

You see, under the current system, the physically strongest players only become targets around the final 11. This is because the strong players want to win immunity, so they want to take out their biggest physical threats, and the weak players know that the strong will do well in front of the jury, so they want them out. All your system would do, would be to make the strongest players targets from day one with absolutely no consequences for voting them out. Under the current system, if you vote a stronger player out over someone like Chet, your tribe is weakened and you have a harder time winning challenges. That's why people tend not to vote out the strong on a whim. And when they do, it causes problems down the line. Your system screws the strong by first making it harder to find allies early on, because they know they'll actively be competing against the people who win the challenges alongside them, and second making it so that if they mess up on a challenge or lose by maybe a split second, they're screwed and they're going to be voted out. Pretty much the only way your system works is if you get rid of the vote entirely and just eliminate whoever does the worst in the challenge, and that's not Survivor anymore. You won't get smart players applying for the show anymore if that happens.

Yeah, and as I said, tribes that DO throw challenges to boot their strong, or just tribes that boot the strong in general tend to have poor success in challenges. Ogakor lost three straight immunities after booting a strong guy. Maraamu didn't win a single challenge after booting a strong guy on day 3. Chuay Ghan lost three of the first four immunity challenges, and probably would've lost more had Sook Jai not gotten disqualified in the Attack Zone challenge and then thrown immunity, and that was all because they booted a strong guy on day 3. Sook Jai booted their strongest member early and then went on a losing streak that left them down by two at the merge. Drake booted Burton and then went on to lose the next three immunity challenges. Mogo Mogo booted Richard, Colby, and Ethan, and after Richard, they couldn't win a single challenge. Ulong voted out Jolanda first and Jeff third and after that, they couldn't win a single challenge. New Yaxha voted out Blake, which could've caused their tribe to perform poorly in the next few challenges. Hiki booted Sekou and almost lost immunity to a tribe that was throwing the challenge. Raro booted JP and didn't have the strength needed later on in the game. Zhan Hu booted Chicken and Ashley and didn't have the physical strength to keep up with Fei Long. New Malakal booted Joel and didn't have the strength to compete with New Airai.

So stop acting like people just boot the strong players early on and there's no consequences for it. Booting the strong under the current system means you risk weakening your tribe and being sent back to tribal council more and more, weaking you further. The strong only get booted after the merge under the current system because at that point, the game becomes individual and you don't need them to win challenges anymore. The only reason strong players get far is because they were able to form bonds and alliances on their initial tribes, which is something less likely to occur under your system, Artiee.