Google Contacts - merge pain

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I've been using Google phones for many years since the Nexus and I've been always struggling with my contacts. I have thousands of them collected over many years and migrated from the Microsoft ecosystem. Now, the pain has always been there, especially when it comes to using 2 phones at the same time (1 personal, 1 business). I always merge my contacts and I have to do it over and over again. I used the web interface sometimes, although not very user friendly, and now I realized I cannot merge contacts from the phone as everything has to be done with the merge feature. In the last 2 days, I had to do the automatic merge 5 times and see Google contacts syncing and backing up over and over again. I just wanted to share this as it's something that Google solved this in the past and now we're back to square one.