Why not try this for, I think, 6 months or 3? Let's see how spammers would be able to spam.
And honestly, what's the purpose of the report button if the whole forum is totally clean from spamming?
I believe this will be a mess being an active Legendary member doesn't make one fair or trustworthy, we have seen past experience, humans are humans.
While the current merit system still has it flaws, I don't think any of the solution here would be a better choice, the merit bias Isn't fair but putting this on only set of individuals seems like not being different from centralization.
You're right, there's always trade-off of any changes on merit system.
Yea, this isn't changing anything for the better either. I think the best is still the current one since it's possible to catch merit abusers here and it more likely has a lesser rate of abusing than these alternatives here.