Here is another prediction.
When NZ overhauls the program again, to be likely, harder.
QF will do another round of status match promotion.
For those on the margins of status, if benefits of status matter..food for thought.
It worked for me, I was trading a banked year and threshold gift for status in another alliance. It was a no brainer since those thresholds had risen and the concept of NZ's roulette SP earn from flying, at least in my mind, introduced uncertainty.
It took some tough love from NZ to free me from the "Stockholm Syndrome"