While there are 2 sides to every coin, available consensus is that AORs are no longer prudent and unlikely to be successful.

All the bloggers used to write about AOR, recently (past 6-10 years) few (if any) have. There used to be extensive discussions on these forums about AOR, recently bupkis. Although not directly pertinent, the last 2 posts on 500K, or more, miles on Credit Card bonuses alone possible? are from 2019 and 2016 by which time there were few people supporting the theory (500k, every year, 1 person, no real business).

Granted there are exceptions and anecdotal reports. But just as with the practice of medicine advancing with the shift from exception and anecdotal based to evidence based and considering that today many (? most) people see the downsides of AORs (including possible shutdowns, permanent “pop-up jail”, repetitive declines, lower credit scores due to multiple inquiries) to outweigh the upsides, it’s prudent to very carefully evaluate the AOR course of action.

And of course, many people embrace the basic theory of “it’s a marathon, not a sprint”.