Depends on how much you value the incremental benefits. I travel on a lot of transcon flights and getting complimentary upgrades several times a year is worth doing an extra trip or two. Then again I am someone whose travels are all personal, love being on planes, and I don’t have a family. It’s all relative depending on individual situations.

Being a Plat Pro (EXP too) would be much more valuable if AA’s SDC program wasn’t horrible.