There are two kind of people on this forum, one who can't get merits and cry about this merit system and second are those who are doing fine job even after merit system implementation these people are fine with merit system.
There is another group. Those who stay under the radar because they are interested in altcoins and their posts don't get a lot of attention and aren't visible to merit sources.
Remember the user who made a thread in Meta a few weeks ago where he states his reasons why he thinks he deserves to rank up to Legendary?
He is a quality poster, but he is posting about Altcoins and merit sources don't go there (one does now).
If a user is interested in an X Altcoin for example and writes only in threads regarding projects based on that Altcoin - he is going to have a tough time earning merits.
Yes but usually there are shitposts in altcoins discussion section and merit sources might not feel like to go through garbage pile to find the gems.