Sounds to me like all the unpublished benefits are slowly being wound down. UA must figure that the small minority of GS that even know to take advantage of said unpublished benefits are leveraging them to (too) high ROIs - I’m certainly guilty of that and I imagine I have saved as much money using the GS benefits for my family travel as my company has spent flying me around on UA. I used to buy more J tickets overall when I was 1K (not all for me that is, hence my spending so many years as a mere 1K) than I do now as a GS because the odds of clearing into J are just so high I happily play those odds and save thousands when buying tickets for my family and me.
I enjoyed it while it lasted, that’s for sure. But as much as many love to rave about CK and D360, I’m not aware of GS-like unpublished ways to (almost) guarantee J travel for Y money?