I've said before it's harsh for Hero members with over 775 activity to get only 500 merits, and your case is the worst I think!
What about Legendary members who now have the same Merit as those who have
1,000+ less activity than they do?

The system is not perfect, but nothing stops Theymos from tweaking it later.
The Merit system reifyies and institutionalizes Legendary power structures!

Legendary members with more activity must have their privilege checked, because meritocracy is a racist tool of white supremacist ideology.
Source:
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9874I like your image, this tell lots of thing. The merit system is good in general, but it has still have some drawbacks, which should be eliminated in order to keep the merit system is a truly fair one, keep it as fair as possible for all ranks of users.
Anyway, I support the idea of merit system which related to user ranking.