FWIW, I recently got off a call with an agent, who told me that they recently were told that Platinum members only get the droid requests going forward, and manual review is now limited for CL and P1 members (and also an edge case of "SSU Platinum Member", whatever that means, but I assume it's something to do with comercially important people). Apparently this has been the case for a couple of months, which is sad for me, as it's the only reason I keep maintaining Platinum on Qantas instead of falling back to LTG.
I realise that manual review has been an unpublished benefit for a while, but it seems as though that is being tightened up. So long, Qantas Platinum. It's been fun.
Anyway, some more droid data points.
17JAN SYD-JNB I5 — declined
23JAN SYD-JNB I9 — declined