At the risk of copping a few (potentially deserved) groans and eye rolls from other members…
I decided to have a go at being “that guy” and have submitted an enquiry about getting my missing SCs posted, suggesting that with impending travel, the change from SG to WP makes a significant difference in terms of things like luggage allowance, lounge access, likely success of upgrade requests etc, not to mention that once the status change is retrospectively applied, I’d need to be bothering them again for a missing points claim due to the difference in points earn rates. Suggested it’s not a good look that FF who are flying now receive their bonus points in 1-2 business days, whereas folks who’ve flown upwards of 1 to 1.5 months ago are still waiting and missing out on benefits to which they are rightly entitled.
The way I see it is that the worst case scenario will be that I have zero luck, but will at least have offered some feedback to QF that this is a poor look and not being received well by members.