I can sympathize with trying to plan family vacations with a large number of people because we only have the one son and this is the fourth year I've tried to plan a stay using my ARP at Glacier Canyon for him and his family. The first year I booked the week of our granddaughter's birthday which is the week before my DIL starts back for the new school year. My DIL got a job at a different school and they needed that week to move and for her to get her new classroom set up. The second year my son changed jobs and didn't have the vacation time. By the third year I was down to only booking 5 nights but they had our second granddaughter in June so not interested in going with a new baby. This year I only booked 4 week nights so I didn't tie nearly as many points. I have vowed that if they screw this one up my husband and I are going to fly from Florida to Cleveland, OH to get the older granddaughter to take her to Glacier Canyon for her 6th birthday. We will fly into either Chicago or Madison and rent a car to drive the rest of the way. In the past I've always had enough notice from them to cancel the reservation more than 30 days out but this time I'm not giving up that reservation. The first couple of years it irritated me that I used my ARP for a reservation that I ended up cancelling and then ended up with all those cancelled points with the restrictions on them at the time.
But as much as I sympathize I do understand that owners who tie up as many as 10 units at the favored resorts in prime weeks are seen by Wyndham as abusing the system and hurting other owners, even other VIP owners. I'm guessing that Wyndham has very little sympathy and one of the big reasons is that if you are tying up 6-10 units they most likely see you as a mega rental or points manager rather than an individual planning a family vacation. Another reason is that they see you as hoarding reservation to get the discount and free upgrades when those windows open which they consider manipulating the inventory to your advantage instead of booking or upgrading what is available at that time which is how the system was intended to work if you read the directory as Ron and others have pointed out more than once. Your VIP benefits only entitle you to the discounts and upgrades on what is available in those windows. If you are hoarding reservations to manipulate the system to your benefit, no matter what the sales people have coached each and every one of us to do, Wyndham has the written guidelines on their side to say that is abusing your VIP benefits. BTW I don't like it one bit more than any other VIP owner but I'm smart enough to understand that Wyndham has the right to enforce those guidelines in any way they fit. They also have an obligation not to allow VIP owners to take unfair advantage they were never intended to have over the non VIP owners.
For every owner who ties up multiple units for family members who "might want to go", sometimes holding them clear down to the 15 day cancellation window, there are probably 10 if not 20 or more owners and point managers who rent doing the same thing. The other say 75% of the owners see all that inventory suddenly available that they couldn't get for their family vacations and now it is too late for them to be able to use it. These are the owners who have been telling Wyndham they are unhappy with their ownership and Wyndham listened. We big point VIP owners aren't very likely to be buying any more points directly from Wyndham, the smaller point owners are a better target for sales.
I'm sure the owners who wrote letters like the OP have provided Wyndham employees with a lot of laughs. The response letter basically stated, you have guest confirmations and that is what they are for so use them. Which translated means, suck it up buttercup, you had a good ride while it lasted but these changes are here to stay. Maybe OP who have owned longer than we have can point out any change to VIP benefits that Fairfield or Wyndham ever rescinded because owners complained. You can call me cynical or realistic but your efforts would be much better spent figuring out how you can adapt to be able to do what you want to do. Again Ron's words of wisdom and worth heeding.
