No surprise.
Even not saying it, CO's behavior has made it clear they don't give a rats patootie about Elites. After all, United spent a decent amount of effort to stroke the egos of elites so they felt nice, squishy and LOYAL to united, directing spend there. Being realistic, what % of elites are flying on L fares 100k a year to get 1K? No more than 10% I'd guess. We do know that CO considers the SWU expense to be unacceptably high.... (but they control R class, so you can't get it if they think they'll sell the seat, so the real cost is almost nothing.).