"A Taste of" years apparently counting now, even though didn't count last week!
I think they may have changed (to our benefit) what type of years they count.
I always expected to have 8/8/8 on the Marriott side, but until this week I was showing 7/7/7. I emailed the SPG Lurkers about my account asking which year 2011-2018 wasn't counted (because I've earned either legacy Marriott Gold or legacy Marriott Platinum every year since 2011), and they said that it was 2011, because that year I earned Gold only through "A Taste of Gold" (challenge) promotion.
So obviously they weren't counting "A Taste of" years before this.
But this week mine increased from 7/7/7 to 8/8/8, so that means they must have decided to count "A Taste of" years after all (probably because of a lot of complaints about stuff like that not previously counting), and who knows what other kinds of "earned, but not through 50 nights" years they may have decided to count in this week's re-count.