Excellent news - I thought it was just luck that I haven't had to dig out my card lately. Although I'm still in the practice of holding it in my hand with my BP, unless I can't find it before I get to the counter.
Just visited the Thai lounge in HKG, and they didn't even want to see my boarding pass, which was a change from last year. Previously they'd had to pull out a book with printed images of each partner airline's cards, to verify mine against.