Many legendary members do not receive more merits than lower rank members, in my opinion.
How would you come to such a conclusion if you didn't have the data?
Well, Maybe he didn't check the data. But, Maybe he noticed some specific signature participants. 1xCarp is one of them. Most of their Legendaries are bull shit, and they don't even know what they are posting. Most of them are sold or hacked accounts. Stake.com signature campaign participants took the 2nd Placets. I visit
https://loyce.club/active/ every other day to see if there are any spammers around. Most of the time, I see some Legendary members (who wore stake signatures) making 10-20 posts per day, and 90% of them are on gambling boards. If you check their profile, Most of them could not earn more than 20 merits in the last 120 days. I guess OP was thinking the same as mine. That doesn't mean all legendaries are the same.