Makes it sound like you could achieve P1 by upgrading your flights with points. As is usual with "AI" the answer "seems" plausible but is actually wrong/useless.
It's a small room with a few chairs (if you can find one), a coffee machine and a few bottles of wine. As long as your expectations aren't for more than that, go for it.
You can get gold easily enough from a single holiday to Europe in J, I'm sure there'd be lots of kids who picked up gold at the same time as their parents that way.
Seems they have a bit of work to do on it; e.g. on ADL-MEL for the coming month, the calendar shows Classic+ available almost every day but going through to booking and nothing's available at all.
The loyalty bonus means e.g. platinum really requires 1300 SCs rather than 1400 SCs. If chasing status the SCs are definitely the better option. Now that I'm lifetime gold and not flying that much I picked the points for the first time this year (ended my year with ~780 SCs so another 50 would...