Right my attention has been bought to this. When I first joined Alora, I played normie, maxed it and got bored. I thought about Realism, but didnt think of it too much. Real Alan and Smackingthat both challenged me to Realism, of which I have taken that challenge. I have now played Realism for a solid 8-12months now. The whole point of realism is to be somewhat realistic to what OSRS is but not as painful. Realism is a way that you can sorta experience OSRS with just 2x xp rate instead of 5x xp rate that Classic gives. Realism has a base already set up, and has a strong group of other realism players helping newer realism players to understand what the economy is like and different to the regular Alora experience. I personally like playing Realism as there it doesnt get boring. If I dont have an item, and my group doesnt have it, then looks like im either gonna grind for it, which I have done or put it off and grind for it again. Im personally voting against merging the economy, otherwise if the merge happens, you will most likely kill off the Realism playerbase of Alora.
TLDR: Voting No.