it is not difficult to get a merits
Maybe it is not difficult for you to earn merit/s, but for some people whose native language is not English getting even a single merit is an uphill climb.
and those accounts that are crying, if you don't want to leave the forum, please stop crying, improve the quality of your posts from now on.
This is a normal reaction to a change unless you are a bot, but everything will stabilize as time passes by just like the implementation of the merit system.