Merge does not produce to output stream. but to respective. input stream

[Eduard Hasanaj]

I am having a really weird issue where the input streams are being written instead of target topic.
I am running the code example:

const stream1 = kafkaStreams.getKStream("my-input-topic-1");
const stream2 = kafkaStreams.getKStream("my-input-topic-2");
const stream3 = kafkaStreams.getKStream("my-input-topic-3");

// merge will make sure any message that is consumed on any of the streams
// will end up being emitted in the merged stream
// checkout other operations: join (outer, left, inner), combine, zip
// for other merge options
const mergedStream = stream1.merge(stream2).merge(stream3);

// await for 3 kafka consumer
// and 1 kafka producer to be ready
await Promise.all([
	stream1.start(),
	stream2.start(),
	stream3.start(),
	mergedStream.to("my-merged-output-topic") // BE AWARE that .to()s on a merged stream are async
]);

setTimeout(() => {
	kafkaStreams.closeAll();
}, 600 * 1000);

Messages of stream "my-input-topic-1" are being written to "my-input-topic-1" and this happens for every input stream.
my-merged-output-topic is empty.
I have the latest version of the package and I am using Node v16.15.0