Honestly, I don't fly enough to have status on any airlines anymore. I used to go to every conference I could, so I was flying internationally several times a year. Frequent flyer programs were entirely mileage-based then, so that made status easy. 100,000 miles was difficult and I only did it with mileage runs. Worthwhile back in the day; system-wide upgrades were easily worth the cost of a trip to Europe for a weekend in the winter :) Plus, visiting random countries was a ton of fun.

I kind of got tired of traveling so much and stopped doing it, though. Traveling for work (just meeting people in other offices) kept my status until about 2017. Then I stopped doing that, and now I'm just a bum with no status on any airline. That's about when the mileage-based gravy train came to an end anyway, so I'm not that upset about it. It is good to be marked in the system as someone to pay attention to (got many free upgrades on Cathay Pacific for no reason back in the day), but you are still treated well when you buy a first or business class ticket even without status.