Has anyone renewed Sterling or Aurelian for 2023?

Looks like they are doing a big push in adding a link to book via leaders club on the hotels own websites: https://www.lhw.com/leaders-club/hotel-direct

Let's see if they can improve the delivery of the benefits - in particular the pre-arrival upgrades need to make automatic at booking rather than the guessing game and waiting until 3 days before.