Where is the consequence of the word "merge" here?
After all, a completely new system arose from the connection.
E.g. something like:
In the end, the LEDE brand is already well recognized, as well as OpenWrt.
Returning to the original name is like accepting that the last year of work of various people over a completely new approach / project was simply ... or rather if it was not there.
Let everyone get to the end that there is no OpenWrt, and as a result of the merger there is no longer LEDE - is a whole new creation: LEDEOpenWrt .
Either there is some kind of joint development, progress - or it dies: both.
In my opinion, this is an important ideological issue and I think there was no deeper reflection for both teams, both projects: yes, yes ... that's exactly what you have to call it.
"Whole ideological EDIT":
As a practical example of such thinking and how it perceives the whole world, I can only quote something that many of you probably know: the recent history (~1989) of my nation (Poland) - solidarity and the desire for peaceful reconciliation - not a bloody reckoning of wrongs.