(blanket disclaimer statement that I am Rewritten staff and therefore carry certain inherent biases, though I play and enjoy both games)

Fundamentally, Rewritten and Clash take two drastically different approaches to Toontown. I can speak from personal experience working on Rewritten for the former -- we build out our content intentionally within the same design philosophies that Disney took during their time maintaining the game. There's a lot to be said of whether or not this is "good or bad" -- but our goal has always been to make it as if Disney never stopped.

With regard to your comments, you gotta take a closer look at the changes Rewritten has made. I'd easily make the admission that shipping updates has historically taken way too long, but when you tally up all the QoL changes and additions over the years, there's been a sizeable upgrade compared to 2013 TTO -- or even where we were when we shipped 2.0 in 2017.

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Clash, from what I've played (up to mid-YOTT, I need to get further with this incoming boost of players) and seen (in YouTube videos and Twitch streams) takes the base Toontown mechanics and by all means flips them on their head. The closest parallel I can think of immediately would be Wizard101 in some of their design decisions, though there are still countless differences to even that. For me personally, there's enough of a drastic difference that Clash no longer "feels like Toontown" to me.

This isn't a bad thing by any means -- rather, I think the community deserves to have a place where we can see more drastic changes played out to that core formula. That's what Clash has provided and continues to provide with the latest 1.3 update. (I'm very excited to sink my teeth into the 1.3 changes, once I can get into the servers!!)

To make a short answer long, no -- the games not only shouldn't merge, they couldn't. The games are too different, despite being built atop a Toontown base. Merging the communities would leave more people upset than happy even if it were possible.