Your shrinking frequent-flier miles

Yo, Travel Dude, your life, well, it bites more and more. First off, you've got the dollar, which is tumbling like a drunken snake snowplowing down Tuckerman Ravine. And now there is further ugliness with frequent-flier miles.
US Airways says it will no longer give a minimum of 500 miles for a flight, instead giving credit only for actual miles. This puts a crack in what had been pretty much a longstanding policy throughout the industry that allowed many in the Gray Flannel Brigade and others to really rack up miles.
And you know that once one of them does it.... (Mrs. Maggi in 2nd grade warned you about the dangers of Peer Group Pressure)
It's not like a big surprise, though. The counters of airline beans have been shrinking that fine print for a while now, adding fees, cutting the value of miles, and making them expire so fast that, well, you've had bread around longer (and, bear in mind, you're the kind of person who thinks of the expiration date as merely a suggestion).
Death by a thousand paper cuts. Does this tick you off, or what?