We're talking about the 15K LP threshold level. There's absolutely no reason AA should make a significant reward available at that low level of activity. The whole point is to give people a little bit to incentivize them to keep going.

And the 1000 LP reward choice itself was added in large part because there was nothing there of use to elites in the prior year's set of rewards at 15k,

This is not a real thing to complain about.