RCI never gave blue time undeserved values.
Yes, they got some nominally red time in overbuilt areas, but those weeks should never have been red in the first place if supply and demand were the criteria. Even now, in the current system, those overbuilt areas can be had for either a cheap rental or very low points lite. They aren't worth much now and weren't worth much then. The blue week owner only got the illusion he was trading up, but that kept them in the game.
The other aspect was the 45 day window, where again there was not a ''trade up'' since short shelf life inventory is devalued inventory in the leisure travel market. If its use by date passes, it has no more value at all. It is sort of like the bargains that can be had on last minute cruises or package holidays. When someone makes a last minute deposit, their trade value is severely reduced, so it only makes common sense that when you exchange for one of those weeks, the same concept applies of reduced value.
The real trades ups that happen today in the current system are primarily in some of the overbuilt areas where RCI will give a lot more points lite for a deposit that they charge to trade in to the very same week at the same point in time. Points Lite, in fact, has more trades up than the old Weeks system ever did. At the same time, it has people getting hosed by getting fewer points lite for a deposit of a rare, hard to get area, than RCI is charging at the very same time for a trade into the very same week. Values changing over time make common sense in the market, but having different values at the same point in time depending on whether the week is going in or coming out certainly do not.
Giving blue time undeserved value at the expense of other, far more demanded times at non-seasonal (or at least far less seasonal) resorts only helps the blue owners. It does nothing but hurt the otherwise better off non-blue owners. It is no solution. It didn't work before and wouldn't work now.
We need a points type system that makes fees reflect true value and for resorts with blue time ro make their own weeks desirable not feed off better resorts with unfair trade ups. And despite cries they aren't they are lndeed major trade ups.