Since apparently you don’t understand what the fuck I am saying, I’ll lay it out a little more simply, because he has nearly 0 to do with any indoor to outdoor conversions:
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Merritt ran 44.93 much earlier into his season, against far less competition than Clement did.
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Going into the meet, he was under a heavy training load and he competed for a coach that puts relatively little emphasis on the indoor season.
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He was far beyond what other elite level 400m runners in his training group were doing. This included 45 second 400m runners. These athletes acknowledge this as well.
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A few months later, after switching coaches, he ran his outdoor PR and season PB @ the area permit meet down in Jamaica, visibly less fit. His time was actually significantly slower than his indoor time if you consider the track differences.
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He persistently got slower over the course of the season and only beat his indoor time @ that early Jamaican invite and maybe 1 other meet the entire outdoor season. He routinely lost to athletes below his level.
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All of this has been confirmed by his coach and people training with him at the time, including people that do not particularly like the guy and have no reason to embellish. Merritt himself was routinely asked in interviews if he was going to go back to his coach because of the dramatic drop-off in form during the outdoor season.
Go back to your hole.