It is down to 887,673 right now. Do you know what the peak number was? It will interesting to see if the decrease accelerates 90 days after 24th Jan when Merit was introduced as I'd guess a lot of account farmers gave up then.
I was thinking the same thing. I didn't keep track of the number of active accounts, but this could actually be a good thing.
Still, only about 13,000 accounts ever received merit. Most of thouse 887k accounts won't be missed.