I'm late to this thread, but just wanted to add my voice of discontent regarding the devaluation of the 1k program with the reduction of CR1s by a factor of two (4 instead of 8 per year for 100,000 flight miles). This does not bode well for future changes to MP.
-JoAnne, 1k MM and United flyer for 25 years. Perhaps I need to rethink my main carrier.