Timelord does have a point,
Thanks for your kind words @JayJuanGee my observation they were absent had no malice and shouldn't be taken as anything other than as an observation especially given the number of users who's voices have fallen silent this year (possibly due to the pandemic).
Furthermore, it is NOT like theymos is very active in the past year in terms of making changes to what merit sources there are, currently... so sure, maybe he had tweaked it here and there in the past year, but when I look at the current number of merit sources (97).. .seems to me that he has mostly removed merit sources, rather than adding any, in the past year. Weren't there something like 130 merit sources at the end of theymos's last appointment spree (a bit over a year ago?). I may have said it previously in this thread (or a similar thread) I for one would be more comfortable if users said they were making "expressions of interest" given IIRC there hasn't actually been a thread asking for applicants to make their cases.
