You can care about breakfast or you can not care. But a top tier Hyatt, Hilton, SPG, etc. member knows that they will get breakfast chain-wide, with very few exceptions (Waldorf-Astoria comes to mind)

With MR, I have to visit the website, figure out which brand is going to offer me breakfast. Then I have to check whether the hotel has a lounge or not. Then I have to make sure that the hotel hasn't classified itself as a resort. And then I have to hope that "continental" is slightly better than stale bread and water.

Instead of needing a law degree to decipher the fine print, I'll just stay elsewhere most of the time... MR has a limited window to avoid losing SPG elites over things like this, so I hope they are spending their time wisely.