I am curious as to your (FlyingBlue Experts) opinions regarding what I should do going forward for the rest of the year regarding crediting flights to Flying Blue.

A little background:

I am a citizen of the USA and travel 100% for leisure, I mostly fly domestically in the USA and that means DELTA for the most part.

I have never credited a mile in my flying history to DELTA’s own SkyMiles program and honestly with the devaluations over time I really do not see a good reason to start now. With that said, I have for a while now credited my DELTA miles to Frequency Plus, now Flying Blue (I have always been Silver or iirc RED before that) to have the ability to redeem for Air France First Class which both my wife and I very much enjoy, but would otherwise be out of our price range.

Since the newest incarnation of Flying Blue I have generally earned around 150XP a year, 100% from DELTA and last year as an example, I carried over 50XP which made qualifying this year even easier. Due to an AeroMexico Business class trip which I took in March, I am now sitting at 150XP with approximately 30-40 more XP to go this year after all is said and done. I am wondering if it is worthwhile to go for Gold (180 XP) or just credit the rest of miles to another program for the rest of year leaving me with 50XP starting off next year to make qualifying easier.

I guess my question is this, if the only use for FlyingBlue status is the ability to redeem for First Class is going for Gold status worth it, am I missing something that might be useful which Gold provides?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated, thank you!