Offered as a data point: My status was extended. I've been Plat for years but have always made it with a PQD waiver via credit card spend. 2019 travel was about 85 percent leisure international (Asia, Australia, Europe) on mostly cheap economy tickets. I'm not associated with any corporate contract or account. I also made 1MM in October of 2019 and have resigned myself to eventually only be Gold as I'll never hit to new (or newly reduced) requirements. I'm not mad at the extension though!