Originally Posted by
mhop1027
Really begs the question as to why DL didn't ID these thresholds the first time they ran the analytics and set the current MQD requirements. One would have to imagine, even before MQDs, that DL knows exactly how much each FF spends and how this relates to each medallion level.
Surely they didn't want to scare too many people away at the beginning. That said, I feel equally sure that the whole thing was planned in advance in steps.