Dayum. The $5.00 surveys are gone. The longer ones are $3.50 now. If I thought they were charging survey sponsors proportionately less for completed surveys I might be OK with that- but I doubt that's happened.

I'm a retired actuary and if I think of the expected value of a survey it would be

(Probability of completing survey) X Survey reward + (Probability of getting kicked out) X value of pity points.

So... Probability of completing survey seems to be decreasing. Value of completed surveys and pity points are decreasing. I find only the Hilton points to be genuinely valuable , with AA miles a possible second, so won't be working too hard to rack up more $$, especially since both of those have limits on the frequency of redemptions.