I'm a long time Pualani Platinum. Will be Million Miler when the programs merge on Oct 1.
I've kept my Plat status primarily to increase my priority when standing by for earlier interisland flights.
The free first come, first served first class upgrades was also a nice.
I usually qualified from an even mix of interisland (15-20 rt/year) and transpac/West Coast flying (4-6 rt/year).
I've also been qualifying for Silver on UA and DL based on 1 trip in J to Europe.

So with the new Atmos Rewards, I'm trying to figure out what is the best strategy.
I'm leaning towards choosing mileage based. What do other HA/Pualani elites think?

Mahalo!

PS: Started a new thread in this forum because I think HA elites are outnumbered by AS MVPs in the AS thread and have a perspective that is unique to being based in Hawaii.