The other point that is a bit off is that the job market is a total top-25 caste--system.
Many directionals don't want some ivy super-quantoid at all. They want a professor that can relate to their students, and not be threatening to fellow faculty members.
This is huge, and a major problem with the field. Many lower status departments have anti-merit sensibilities. Oppositional cultures.
this has been the opposite of my experience. I'm from an unranked program and jobs I have applied for at directionals have almost always gone to people with, on paper, weaker records and more prestige.
here's someone from penn state at sw missouri state: https://sociology.missouristate.edu/KShermanWilkins.aspx
Vanderbilt at northern colorado: https://www.unco.edu/hss/sociology/about/faculty/harmony-newman.aspx
Ohio st at Boise st:
https://www.boisestate.edu/sociology/rebecca-cv-2019/
etc etc. There are dozens of these.
Although low-status directionals probably don't typically hire from Harvard and Yale, they tend to hire from the "better" programs that are outside of the Ivies.
I'm not saying that these people don't deserve their jobs, all I am saying is that it's probably not true that low status programs are fast-tracking other low status actors. They'll pass over Central Michigan to get to Penn State.