I wouldn't say the points are entirely useless. I used to travel extensively and rent a car each week prior to COVID for years. I leveraged the points to rent pick-up trucks at my local AVIS at home whenever we needed to move stuff, take things to the dump, garden center runs, etc. It used to cover the full day rental of a new Ford F150/250 for around 700 points. But those were neighbourhood rentals I guess.