Nobody has a crystal ball that can look into the future so nobody can answer that, but what is more likely to happen if the merit system fails is signatures are to be removed completely and that will then solve all our troubles with the ranking system here because people only care about ranks for signature campaigns and bounties. So that is something you should be more concerned about because I'm guessing if that happens you will leave and never return anyway, so instead of hoping and dreaming that one day the merit system might be removed and everything goes back to how it was before, I'd be more concerned about the quality of yours and everyone else's posts here.