Couple questions, sorry if a repost. I've been an SPG Amex carholder for 12 years in total. I don't travel on business much, but I used to like the Gold benefits I got through the 30k annual CC spending, which I achieve every year. As of recently, the devaluation of points made the card less appealing, but I still kept it with the intent of eventually reaching LT gold (was a little over halfway there).
Now with these changes my questions are:
1) Will my existing nights count for LT status with the combined plan?
2) Will the 15 elite nights the new plan will give to cardholders continue to count for LT status?
At any rate, for people in the same situation as me the card lost a lot of appeal. While we do get more elite nights counting for LT status, the thresholds are much higher - 400 nights for Gold versus 250 nights before. Also the gold benefits are also quickly fading away, as of recently I was never getting any relevant upgrade (if I got something was just a room in a higher floor). So still contemplating whether to just cancel my card... thoughts on this?