I suppose the YouTubers can be entertaining and the top ones are pretty accurate, but most of them are agenda driven and profit from clicks and subscriptions. At that, they are part of the cottage industry of cards they review (back). They sell the fiction that the cards are 2X on points.

I thought about the Aspire, but went Surpass. Down the road, at renewal of my Surpass, I may upgrade to Aspire as AMEX Blue preferred covers groceries.

Maybe AMEX guessed wrong on me that I would renew based on 20+ year history on Platinum and that they thought I got value, but I don’t think so. They announced that they are going up to $799 and if I’m not paying the $695, there is no way I’m paying that.