Haven’t read all 3000+ posts. Understand people are disappointed. But the writing on the wall has been there for a while. The US programs all went this way years ago. For the truly high value business traveler, this makes status far easier to obtain. BA Gold was laughably easy to obtain in my view even if the perks arent amazing.

the funny part for me is that these changes will allow me to reach GGL with less flying and given my general disdain for BA, the remaking revenue will actually go elsewhere while I still use the jokers etc.