If you're posting a reply it might be good to know your travel pattern as this is another of the variables.

I travel enough to have had a gold card for 3 years out of the last 4 (and came across to BA as Silver when they took over BMI if that matters), but am always around 1600 TPS per year, i.e. a "scraper"

I mostly fly longhaul in J, very occasionally in F. Mostly to / from the US west coast.
Op-up rate J to F on BA - zero in the last 5 years.
AA - zero
QR - one sector out of 6

Shorthaul - mostly in Y.
Op-up rate - zero.

I wonder what my CIV score is?