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The objects had the Overprint attribute checked in Attributes panel. With this option on Illustrator leaves fragments unmerged to match the assumed intention behind having Overprint one. This is a normal expected behaviour, but not a transparent one.
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I am closing the ticket due to lack of response.
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Anish Kumar
Illustrator Team
Glad that I found this post because I was tearing my hair out for half an hour with the same issue. It is completely confusing to have the program behave this way when you normally don't work with the overprint feature. I normally never have the attributes window, and don't expect a tool to behave different than it's standard definition. Merge should mean to merge objects - not slice and divide them. This is a very confusing interaction and makes it seem like a bug or an error in the program and not an "expected behavior". Please consider a notification in the pathfinder window to display a message of "Overprint Enabled In Attribute Window" If the merge button is clicked while overprint is enabled as this at least will be a clue that something is out of the ordinary.