I'm sorry, but this is new...and it must have come from somewhere. They just didn't start selling the upgrades first before upgrading the elites. They must have been TOLD to do so. Nothing else makes any sense, after forever of having the upgrades for elites clear first.

So now they are being told to go back to the old order? Or not?

There is just waaay too much anecdotal evidence to have us believe anything except this is what they were told to do.

Please tell us the truth...was this a money grab that backfired, and now AS is regretting it? Or a money grab that they plan on continuing? We really have to know the new normal to have sufficient information to decide whether we want to spend our hard-earned bucks with AS.

It's been way beyond a reasonable amount of time to be told the truth.