I 100% agree. I am astounded by this counterswing of the pendulum. There will be a ton of EOY 23 Diamonds (including myself) who have hundreds of thousands of MQMs squirreled away and who will choose the option of status extension for anywhere fro 1-10 years. And in an effort to goose the Amex spending there will be a horde of new platinums that are sticking around for years.

This just makes no sense. Delta has utterly failed with both the goals they were pursuing to begin with