Wow, if this is true, this would make my DC the second card in my wallet that apparently no one can apply for now. (The first would be Chase Rewards Plus, which gives me -- after point redemptions -- 4+ UA miles for gas/grocery/drug store spend, though it was never marketed as a miles-redeemable card except to people who called to cancel another miles-earning card.)

Perhaps the Citi layoffs included the department in charge of DC personal apps?? (After all, if they were only accepting apps over the phone, they had to have phone agents to take those apps, while "mainline" Citicards doesn't need many of those because apps can be done online.)