Crazy Voyager
I'm pleased that you've never heard a pilot comment on the alleged fuel savings with Point Merge; because it indicates to me that it is ONLY those who have very little professional understanding of ATC, & a bias towards automation, who make what are, to me (but I am ATC biased), outrageous claims solely on the basis of "new technology" being sacrosanct & obviously better than the ATCO - which I believe it is not.
When the ATCOS' skills & abilities have been derided & dispensed with, we'll be left with a system which cannot cope (in certain situations) & which cannot be rescued by ATCOS - because they no longer have those skills & abilities; & because the profession has been watered down, largely because of the bogus claims made for systems such as Point Merge.
Time will tell.