OK, but that's why Customer A is only Plat and Customer C is 1K. If oyu think Customer A is clearly <<<< than the value of Customer C, then how is giving Customer C 1K and giving Customer A Plat not to "protecting the sanctity of 1K status"?

And the same reasoning applies to give Customer B Plat status and Customer C 1K status, at least as far as the "protecting the sanctity of 1K" or whatever goes.

I'm not saying that I like the change (because, if given the choice, I would want to choose to be a low-value 1K customer too), or that I think it's fair (because a lot of people already accumulated FEQM that are now getting retroactively devalued). I am just saying that it does seem to effectively restrict 1K to higher-value customers, and that your example illustrates that rather than disproving it.