Any of the kds that have actually been through a merger know that it's more than likely just completely not going to work and pretty much waste an age for them. Why the hell would ANY monarch want to do that with their kd? So the big kds don't have to hurt anyone's feelings cus they kicked them out of their clubhouse?
Mergers might help a couple kds get to 25 players, but it won't help Utopia be any less stale.