Originally Posted by
synzero
However I agree that magical thinking will have them hope (as is clearly their plan) that big spending by big spenders will make up for the losses. I think they're going to turn out to be wrong about that.
I was thinking about this over the last few days and I don't see any comments on any platform from high(er) value customers saying "gee I love those changes and I think I will move my spending over to DL", not one. Why would the high spenders who will have status and no loss of benefits, spend more? I'm sure there are some that will figure out how to spend more to maintain say PM, but they made the jump so much harder that I don't see many doing that, rather, they will jump ship if they see no way to earn that status or just drop ranks. I guess time will tell.