It does make me wonder, however, how often Marriott surprises elite members who are not part of the FT crowd and who generally only travel during the week, for work, who suddenly are surprised there is no guaranteed weekend breakfast when they take a leisure trip with the family.
If this was a new change, I would agree with you but it is not new.
For someone who would have lounge access during the week for business, it would surprise me that he/she would not know of the changes from conversations with patrons or the attendants over the year(s).
At this point, any elite who is unaware of these changes lives under a rock.