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YClass
Acquaintance of mine will probably do exactly that. Every year goes to MLE for 2-3 weeks at one of the crazy expensive places. He'll probably be able to get GGL for his entire family with two BAH bookings. Then for all his other flights (he almost certainly does 100+ flights a year) he'll use other/better options unless BA truly happens to be best on a particular route. My guess is he would have gone out of his way to take more BA flights under the old system.
Well if someone has spent £65k with BA, they are certainly a lot more deserving of Gold, than people who have spent £5k, and used all sorts of convoluted ways to get status. Ultimately that's the way BA see it.