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.
It's not an excuse buddy, my native language isn't also English but how come I've got my Merits. I also knew many people here whose on the higher ranks who doesn't speak English really well.
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.
It's not normal though, that's is some kind of abnormality on a certain individual. Whining and mumbling all the times every changes has been made isn't normal. All of these are being discussed before it was implemented. I really don't give a damn to those noobs who has a little iniatiative to help these forum look better.
Or maybe you figured out that raging against the new changes isn't going to earn you any merits?
Certainly. Indeed.