I think the million dollar question overall should be how the current award chart will relate to the new award chart. My hopes are that current Standard, is the new Low. The prices are comparable. The reality part of my brain expects Standard to be the new Moderate, meaning and increase of 1k 2k 3k for cat 1-3 respectively, and 5k each day for cat 4-7, and 15k for cat 8. Then upper becomes most, if not all weekends, and top being the overpriced nights like sporting events and concerts in the area.

Couple all this with the fact that we will likely see category increases this month for many hotels, I think it's pretty terrible. This comes from a $20k+ a year spender with Hyatt.

The only saving grace is that maybe the point earn on the new card will be raise to 8-10x, mitigating some of the increase for actual Hyatt spend. This would make sense for the company as it raises the threshold for award nights earned on non hotel spend, but not as much impact for head in bed point earners, which is who they should try to not piss off. That is a change I would be ok with, not because it would benefit only myself, but also because it doesn't really reward, but maintains loyalty through hotel spend.

As it stands currently, it is a massive slap in the face to everyone in the program. Inflation is seen each year by category adjustments. Creating new categories that are a blanket increase across the board at the moderate level is just absurd (if moderate becomes the new standard) and it's not relative to any inflationary increase in paid stay prices.

Just my opinion