I'd like to integrate the "merge or CP merge strategies" from our ICAPS 2024 paper (https://ai.dmi.unibas.ch/papers/sievers-et-al-icaps2024.pdf). More precisely, the scoring functions called "maximum factor" and "maximum SCP". The latter, used in the hybrid SCC merge strategy, results in state-of-the-art performance of regular M&S (not SCP) heuristics. issue1170 and issue1171 are precursors to this issue.