This is the biggest annoyance (if true) - I earned Gold Status until September 2025 with the reasonable assumption of a soft landing until September 2026 into Silver status. Then with the year changing until March 2026. Now it seems I'll be dumped on the scrapheap of forlorn travellers in Blue in October 2025.
One potential way I might be able to re-earn status is if I can book loads of hotel bookings through BA in BA Holidays, even to the extent of including spurious economy flights (e.g I live in the outskirts of London but sometimes need to book expensive hotels in Central London, so could book Manchester->London flights so I could book the whole thing as a BA holiday). But given how much cashback you can get for hotel bookings (or loyalty points on hotel schemes), it probably makes more sense to keep the cashback and find a better loyalty scheme.