I have a Merlin Agilis, also discontinued. I wouldn't sweat it.

The Lunaris is a very nice bike.

I think the problem is that when Merlin was bought out by Litespeed/ABG, there was a real problem in figuring out why a company had 2 lines of Ti bikes. I prefer Merlin to Litespeed, but that's mostly aesthetics.

As it stands, Merlin is down to just a few frames styles. Maybe that makes sense, but the implementation over the last two years wasn't the best.

Herbert on BF works for ABG and is very good at answering questions about Merlin products.