Definitely a more flexible option, but you might trade overall value for that flexibility (in the sense that you can frequently use accrued points for more value than the cash).
Or you might not, if the only choices are to buy stuff from their shitty Company Store, or convert to airline miles. I don’t need more stuff, and we don’t fly much. There seems to often be an option to convert to cash, but that’s usually a penalty choice. So we dumped the points card(s), and mostly use the Apple Card, which is just straight X% cash.
Regardless, if I’m going to play “maximize value of effort expended”, I’ll fire up the Xbox and play an RPG. I’ll get a lot more pleasure out of that than playing with credit cards. OTOH, plenty of folks might consider Octopath Traveller a waste of time, so to each their own.
Regardless, if I’m going to play “maximize value of effort expended”, I’ll fire up the Xbox and play an RPG. I’ll get a lot more pleasure out of that than playing with credit cards. OTOH, plenty of folks might consider Octopath Traveller a waste of time, so to each their own.