Comment by js2

I'm one of those people with two Apple IDs that I'll never be able to merge. One is my original iTunes account which has all my media purchases. The other is my iCloud account. The ordeal for merging them if you wanted to do it manually is this:

https://www.brianstucki.com/blog/how-to-manually-merge-two-a...

I don't know how many folks are in this situation, but obviously not enough for Apple to care about offering a solution.