Yeah, it looks like that to me as well. The new dollar bonuses are great but the reduction of pity points to 20 cents as well as a limit on how many times you can get pity points over 24 hours takes away from the program. I'm also wary now of agreeing to an extension of the survey, supposedly for more points. On one I got kicked out during the extended section and got pity points. Yesterday I completed one with extensive questions about my health (it wanted total cholesterol, then the 3 components separately, which I had). The extension asked f I was willing to share my name and other identifying information. I selected the option to continue the survey but without supplying my name, etc. since I figured they'd ask about side effects of the statins I took once (they'd asked which ones I recognized/had taken) and they're required to report those to the FDA. Kicked out with pity points.

My quick calculation of the value of the points is about 1/3 cents each- so they're really nickel-and-diming us to chisel off 5 cents in Funny Money.