I plotted some charts for daily and monthly merit distributions. It's a first update after more than 3 years.
For complain about decreasing of merit distributions, the box plot can be helpful. The median daily distributed merit is 722 (see the red line). With this box plot, you can see the trend is decreasing but this 2024 year is still above the median and better than most of years, except years 2022 and 2023.
See details with following charts.