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Let's look at it this way:

The ten weakest players from this season are (Ami/Amanda could switch with a few): Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie, Yau-Man, Eliza, Alexis, Mary, Jonny Fairplay

The format you suggest basically means that women will more than likely get voted out before the men, because men tend to be physically stronger than women in challenges. It also shows that there is absolutely no reason for the "weaklings" not to make the merge. By your logic, wouldn't it be smarter to keep the weaklings around so you have a better chance of not going to tribal council? In fact, the system you've devised basically screws over the midcarders who aren't weak, but aren't as strong as guys like James.

The second flaw is that if the same "weaklings" keep winding up in the bottom group, eventually people from the top group will fall into the bottom group, and they'll be the biggest targets. For one, they won't have had as much interaction with the bottom group, thus they won't have a firm alliance, and second, they'll be the strength that is keeping the bottom group out of the top group. So let's just assume that the weakest players stay the same each week. Based on that, the season would work out something like this.

Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie, Yau-Man, Eliza, Alexis, Mary, Jonny Fairplay: Fairplay goes first.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie, Yau-Man, Eliza, Alexis, Mary: Eliza goes second.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie, Yau-Man, Alexis, Mary, Parvati: Parvati goes third.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie, Yau-Man, Alexis, Mary: Yau-Man goes fourth.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie, Alexis, Mary, Ami: Ami goes fifth.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie, Alexis, Mary: Alexis goes sixth.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie, Mary, Ami: Ami goes seventh.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie, Mary: Mary goes eighth.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie, Mikey B: Mikey B goes ninth.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Natalie: Natalie goes tenth.

Thus the merge looks like this:
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Ozzy, James, Joel, Jason, Erik, Jonathan: Ozzy goes eleventh.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, James, Joel, Jason, Erik, Jonathan: James goes twelveth.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Joel, Jason, Erik, Jonathan: Joel goes thirteenth.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Jason, Erik, Jonathan: Jason goes fourteenth.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Erik, Jonathan: Jonathan goes fifteenth.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy, Erik: Erik goes sixteenth.
Chet, Kathy, Cirie, Tracy: Cirie goes seventeenth.

And the final three ends up as Crazy Kathy, Weak Chet, and Tracy. The flaw in your little plan is that it benefits the weakest players a lot more than the strongest players.

Plus, as I indicated in my post, the game caters to the weakest of the weak. Pre-merge, the weakest players are the ones you want to keep around, because they'll never win challenges and give you less of a chance of winning challenges. Post-merge, they're completely non-threatening, and when the winners happen to be a group of alpha-males, you know that they're going to start killing each other whenever they get the chance, thus allowing the weaklings to skate through.

By not having all the challenges be physical, that means it's even EASIER for the weak players to get to the end, because they'll have the physically strong players fall into the bottom group where they'll be easy to pick off. Hell, people may be stupid, but I think only Jason would be dumb enough to vote off players weaker than himself, instead of the stronger players if he got the chance. That's why Tracy kept Chet & Kathy around. That's why Todd kept Courtney around. The way you've planned it basically means the weakest plays WILL team up and pick off the stronger players (thus eliminating all the players that are neither Chet-like weaklings nor Ozzy-like challenge Gods) and they'll make the merge. And at the merge, the weaker players are rarely targetted first, especially since the remaining alpha-males tend to fight amongst themselves to show how strong they are.