I mean, if these rumors are true...boy there are some really narrow minded and short sighted comments here. Amazing to me how many people have been boiled slowly by corporate nonsense and have stockholm syndrome with their corporate abusers with some of the stuff I hear people say. Goodness.
As for the comment about not being able to book properties on points unless you book them a year out...that is so completely untrue it is not even funny. I saw open rooms for weeks at the PHT (the property mentioned specifically) for weeks on end with a month or 2 and a week's notice very recently. I regularly see "top" end properties open on points within a month of booking.