Making a mistake and correcting it isn't the issue. If they had simply added a higher tier on the SPG side to match the one on the MR side, the issue would have mostly gone away. The problem is the criteria for LTPP has changed more than once and each iteration creates the impression that others might be covered in the next one. Allowing combined nights and years of status meant some who would not have been old LTP this year under SPG rules qualified for LTPP under the combined program. Once that was allowed, some MR members wanted the chance to combine nights and not points. Now we have a new topic where someone feels aggrieved because nights and points can't be be combined. Someone else is complaining about the inability to qualify even though he or she didn't have 10 years of Platinum status. We have gone from what might have been a relatively small group of MR and SPG members who would have qualified based on uncombined totals to an increasingly large pool of members, which makes those who are not able to qualify for LTPP lower on the upgrade list than they might have been with more restrictive qualifying criteria.

At the end of this year, I will have well over 2MM MR points and roughly 700 MR nights. If nights can be combined, I am way over 750 nights. Although the Lurker William posted in June that 750 combined nights and 2MM uncombined points qualify for LTPP, there is at least one blogger who claims to have been told subsequently by MPG management that only MR nights count.