If anyone would like a more formatted spreadsheet with the milestone benefits (what drives the tables I posted in the main thread about the transition), you can access mine here.

I still think someone needs to lay out the core benefits as well, and compare those plus milestone benefits to the current set, to see just how much we're getting screwed. But since I'm kind of the Excel guy around here, I guess that will have to be up to me when I have time to sit down and do it... But it looks to me like currently if I spend $20K and earn 150K SQM, I get a bunch of core benefits plus 4x PRs and some threshold eUps and whatnot. And now a similar level of spending will get me 4x PRs (assuming I select those), a much smaller number of eUps, and not a goddamned thing else.

I also find the inconsistency of the milestone benefits to be strange. Sometimes a status pass is effectively worth 2,500 Aeroplan points (e.g. 70K). Other times, it's effectively worth 3,750 points (e.g. 60K). And 5K points are worth $150 (e.g. 70K), but 2 x 5K points isn't worth 2 x $150 (i.e. $300), it's worth $250.

Also, I think someone in the other thread suggested picking the bonus SQC all the way up to maintain SE. So let's say you earn 115K SQC through flying, CC, etc, and use milestones to get you the other 10K to SE. But you've given up 4 PRs to do that. I guess that saves you $2500 + taxes in cash (and in this case, "taxes" aren't just GST, but also whatever AIFs etc would be applicable to the air tickets you'd buy to get the 10K SQC), so it's almost like paying $625 + taxes per PR. But then you're really not getting much out of the loyalty program that you're spending so much money to retain status in. Would I pay $625 + taxes for a PR in cash? I don't know, since that opportunity has never presented itself, but if I think about the fact that I value Aeroplan points at about 1 cent apiece for acquisition purposes, and using a PR is basically buying Aeroplan points, let's say I'd need to get at least 70K points (using $625 + taxes = $700) to make it worth that trade. I did redeem some PRs for less than 70K points apiece back when I was drowning in them due to all the promos and extensions (and even had some expire, thanks to AC's stupid GMT-obsessed programmers). But these days, if I'm only earning a handful a year, I'm probably going to consistently use them on high-value redemptions that save over 70K points apiece. So it's not crazy to consider just paying cash for those 10K SQC instead of selecting the 2,500 SQC milestone benefits.