Originally Posted by
christianj
Overall it might be a reduction but we all know YMMV since the properties I might be looking at redeeming at could have all went up substantially vs yours might have gone down. That is why you might essentially get the "devaluation travesty" claims. For example, I want to redeem at the Domes of Elounda again and it is going from 45k per night to 80k which is a travesty!
But, but...
No, picking a subset of properties that one person may be interested in does not support a "devaluation travesty" claim for an entire program. "Based on my specific needs, I suffer an impact" is accurate - branding the entire program is not. (I also suspect any program change in history had negative impacts to some person with some specific needs subset. That's not how one should evaluate "program changes", IMHO)
I could just as easily say "St Regis SF - down from 90K to 60K; W Bali - down from 90K to 60K - this new program saves me 1/3 of my points - Hallelujah!!!"