Nevertheless, you beat my argument that there's probably not even one member who's close to the speed at which members used to obtain ranks before.
I went from brand new to Junior member in 14 days, and I have enough merits to make it to member level at the same rate as the pre-merit rank updates.
Wow look, a real prove of a member that can rank up in the merit era. I bet it feels great right?
There are more members that ranked up in merit era, you just dont know because you are not active enough to search or roam in the meta section.