AC makes the rules, the passenger plays the game I guess AC gets paid enough from the other airlines for the miles or they would not have been giving SE the perks.
Also your comment that you dont blame AC for SE IKK Capacity Control??

How has this changed anything? This passenger still has IKK and he is playing the game with the rules.^ Good for him. After 10+ years if AC wanted to stop it they could have. They have cut SE for 10 years and this was not one of the cuts.