Due to which various promotions?

Current "main" promotion: Only 3000 bonus points (which if converted to miles is only 600 miles) every 3rd stay, but 1000 bonus miles if you are set to collect miles on that stay.

December online booking promotion: 1000 bonus points for January stays booked online did all post even if the rest of stay posting was in miles.

AFAIK, 10k for x nights is the only bonus that doesn't work at all if you're doing miles. And, ironically, it's the one bonus that sometimes doesn't work at all even if you're points (if you can only use one you weren't targeted for)!

Meanwhile, for a one-night $66 Candlewood stay you can earn a whopping 330 points, or a whopping 65 miles with a domestic carrier, but if you happen to collect one of a dozenish overseas carriers, eg BA, then you get 500 miles for each such stay! Where else can you get 500 miles on a $66 stay??

So I would propose the opposite: If you can make good use of one of the airlines with which you get 500 miles per stay, and you're staying at a cheap property (especially a cheap Candlewood or StayBridge where you get half of what you get at the other properties) one night at a time, it seems to me insane to accept 330 points instead of 500 miles! (Unless it's a stay on which you're going to get thousands of bonus points, but in the currrent promo that would be only every 3rd stay for those of us who stay one night per tay.)

So I can give up several thousand miles in the hopes of getting 10k points (which would only convert to two thousand miles), or I can choose points or miles as makes sense for everything else except 10k points, and then if I don't get 10k points I'll simply stay less in the future! (In years past, I did get 10k points even when stays were credit to files, so if they wanted to offer it that way, they could!)

The fact is, for those who care about miles, every year Priority Club is less and less competitve. They used to have 1:4 conversion, now it's 1:5. They used to give 10k bonuses on miles-earning stays, now they don't. Meanwhile both Choice and Best Western are doing 3x promos which means 750 miles per stay (including with domestic airlines), and there's no way Priority Club can come close to that for domestic airlines (for those of us who pay our own dime for cheap stays).

... Now, obviously, if you're staying several nights in a row at more expensive properties, then your math is going to be quite different. But that's my point, earning miles is not necessarily insane, nor is earning points necessarily insane either. All that is insane is not doing your own math!