Yes DY I can explain further np
So can I. The gemara is saying how bad it is to appoint daysnim based on money. The gemara contrasts that with R’ Yitzchak Ben R’ Elazar who was a dayan hagun.
See the parallel gemara in Sanhedrin (7b). See also ככר לאדן who changes the girsa.
Nothing to do with atzmus in a guf, ch”v.