Sales people will always find a way to sell features. They have done this since the beginning of time. Wyndham didn't create the process of cancel/rebook/upgrade. That is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation. But sales people started selling that feature (loophole) to help them sell the VIP status. VIP status itself is not contracted right. Wyndham can, and has, changed the rules of VIP.
The Credit pool is another example. Nowhere is the documentation or on the old website does it say that you can credit pool your points in future years and use them in the current year. On the old website it said that if you found you wouldn't be able to travel one year you could credit pool your point to be able to use them in the next year. It also said that your ability to use your credit pooled points was based on the amount of points put into the credit pool from the same use year by other members. I have never heard of anyone being denied a booking with points out of the credit pool because there weren't enough deposited by other users. Maybe this is because a huge number of members, including me, simply put all there points in the credit pool every year, so there was always plenty. Or maybe Wyndham decided not to invoke that rule.
Sales people are selling the credit pool feature (loophole) and the cancel/rebook/upgrade feature (loophole). I'm sure there are others I can't think of right now.
I went through a presentation at Bali Hai in Hawaii where the sales person told me I really needed to own an Bali Hai because I would never be able to stay in Bali Hai unless I owned there. Then how you explain that I am staying here. Oh she said, well you certainly can't get the presidential units. Then how am I staying in the 3 BR Presidential. How could you do that. "Do you have a computer I can show I said, It's really easy."
Sales people will tell you anything to make the sale "Damn Lies", "Outright Lies", "Half Truths", and tons of features/loopholes. It is a shame I agree and I wish it wasn't so. And I surely will miss the credit pool, I really will. But I will learn to live without it and work within the system. I'm not VIP so I won't personally miss the cancel/rebook/upgrade. But I can see how for some it will be deal breaker. I suggest that you wait, just a little, and see how everything shakes out. Maybe it there will be more inventory at the 60 day point in the off season at some resort that don't have it showing now. Who knows.