The migration to this forum format is why you see the date as 2019. That happened in the QB community forum migration as well. I get email from people who think I recently posted there (2019), but I haven't been on that community forum in years and years. The original content that was not discarded, did get redated.

And level 4 is about right, for participation based on your username. You get Badges, not Levels, for some things (cheers, Solved selection, etc), and the Levels will come over time, from originating posts and from posting replies.

And really, you are on a professional forum complaining about a social networking function, and if you really want Likes, then this is not the right forum.