If UA moves to a *real* premium economy product rather than E+, then they're no longer going to give it away to all us so-called "elites" for free. I prefer a crummy E+ that I'm sitting in to a proper E++ that I'm not sitting in, any day.

Besides, all these E++ classes lie somewhere way off any sensible price-value curve in my experience, though that may be too many Australian flights where premium cabins always cost twice what they do on other routes of comparable length