I'm so mad I missed the window where you were supposedly able to merge email accounts. If I want to merge existing separate accounts now I have to terminate the

I'm so mad I missed the window where you were supposedly able to merge email accounts. If I want to merge existing separate accounts now I have to terminate the old account, wait like a 9 months/a year(??) for it to expire and be purged, and then add it as an alias, assuming MS doesn't hold the expired account name >:C