I'm really curious: Marriott seems to have the worst award devaluations year after year after year. My heart sinks when I learn that the changes have been announced, and they're usually worse than even my worst expectations. Why do people keep voting for Marriott to win the Freddie award every year?
What is your basis for "seems"? Hilton has been decimated far worse than MR. I've performed an analysis of the moves each year, and they are usually in line with expectations/average of other programs.
Winning awards tends to support the argument that they don't "seem" to be the worst to the vast majority of the (voting) public.