It makes perfect sense that the new supreme of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” is Shamea Morton, a woman who drives a Rolls-Royce and has a sister named Tawuana.

Bravo, bringing Morton on as a full-time cast member is the smartest decision production has made in years. Morton, who is not technically a new addition to the show, having previously served as a “friend of” in Season 6 and maintained a presence in the years that followed, is the anchor the show needed.

That was not the expectation going into the show. Now that we’ve seen a fuller picture of her life, it makes absolute sense that the much-anticipated season premiere centered on her.

It’s been so nice to watch “RHOA” and shout, “Ooh, she got money!”

Morton’s home, named “Sterling Hall,” makes me feel so damn poor, which is exactly how I’m supposed to feel when watching “Real Housewives.” As Morton explained on a recent edition of the YouTube series “Speak On It” — hosted by former “RHOA” mainstay Kandi Burruss — some Bravo fans assumed she was nothing more than Williams’ broke bestie.

I don’t believe in pocket watching, but based on her $9 million home and being gifted a $430,000 Rolls-Royce Cullinan by her husband, Gerald Mwangi, those doubters can shut their goofy selves up. What makes it all even better for the show is that Morton’s husband made his fortune by working in heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

“Some of the airports you’ve walked through, my husband has built, manufactured and installed the HVACs,” Morton explained on the premiere. “There you have it!”

It’s refreshing to watch rich “Real Housewives” and not question whether the feds are watching, too.

Rich as she is, though Morton is not obnoxious and arrogant about it, and unlike many housewives generally, she is self-deprecating.

Not everyone would share the part of her love story where she “blew up his bathroom” after staying the night at his house following a cookout. Nor would they be so willing to talk about their struggles with family planning involving a surrogate being diagnosed with breast cancer and having a premature child hospitalized for six months before being discharged. Rich people’s problems can be exhausting to watch after a while, so I appreciate the show featuring someone with issues that seem more universal.

Lastly, for what it’s worth, her new single, “Neva Had,” is genuinely good. I knew Morton had appeared in movies like “Ride Along 2” and “CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story,” but during her press run, she revealed that she had been in girl groups with R&B’s favorite 5G skeptic Keri Hilson and Shamari DeVoe from Blaque.

My praise for Morton is not a knock to the other “RHOA” newbies, which include restaurateur and self-professed “waffle queen” Kelli Ferrell; Angela Oakley, the wife of retired New York Knicks star Charles Oakley; or entrepreneur, former video vixen and podcast host Brit Eady.

They’re all doing a fine job on the show so far, particularly Ferrell. She may have been shady as hell to say to Porsha Williams, who rejoined the reality series for Season 16, that “she stole that lady’s husband,” but in this economy, it’s best to run straight toward the mess as fast as you can.

Williams, Kenya Moore and Cynthia Bailey — the OGs of the franchise — make the new “RHOA” more like a pleasantly surprising “Real Housewives of Miami” style (soft) reboot as opposed to the ongoing mess that is the retooled “Real Housewives of New York.”

Like many fans of the show, I would like a lil’ more Moore, too — especially in confessionals — but this is the kind of edit you get when you lose your job.

Drew Sidora is also back, and her life is still equal parts chaotic and messy. Sidora brings a stage play element to “RHOA,” and I’d rather see it in a Je’Caryous Johnson production than on Bravo, but to each their own.

As a longtime fan of “RHOA,” the past couple of seasons have not been their best; the show has sometimes been painful to watch. Already, Season 16 is leaps and bounds ahead of those. There appears to be some back and forth over the ratings, but what oughta count most right now is the state of the show; it has improved, so the people will find that out one way or another.

In the meantime, Morton has finally gotten her chance to shine and is making the most out of it. There aren’t many lessons to glean from this franchise outside of “don’t date a terrible man” and “don’t commit fraud.” So I’m savoring this one about waiting your turn.