Offering my perspective as someone who abandoned Pathfinder and PFS quiet a while ago and mostly due to irritation with the Boons economy.
To be clear: I bailed almost four years ago at this point and have not continued to research developments with PFS or Boons for PFS since. There should certainly be details I'm ignorant of.
I don't like oodles of hyper-exclusive options locked out for this rewards system at all.
I don't like a campaign culture based around status badges and better powergaming tools.
That was certainly the feeling when interacting with PFS at GenCon and at some store games around the country. I don't like the play incentives that the existence of this system creates, nor the conversations between players that it creates.
I'm quite interested to try PFS 2.0, but this sort of exclusive lockout reward and the convention and store conversations about boons cheese me off to a very high degree.
Given existing invested players are a pretty important demographic and that luring convention volunteers is an issue, my assumption is that this decision will land somewhere that will mean I'm not actually doing PFS 2.0. I can respect the reasons for making that decision.
For what it is worth, option 1, option 4, or option 3 with no window of exclusive access purely through old boon trade-in are the options that allow me to try out PFS 2.0 for a few years before the naturally inflationary and collection-driven nature of a boons system becomes too much for me.
In order to stay a long-term invested player, though, a lot about boons would need a rethink. At some point, all of the points being made here about needing to bribe people to GM at conventions by locking out options from other players and awarding them powergaming tools are also the reason to abandon the campaign for me.
I don't want a campaign with that wide of a power band between hyper-invested and casual players whose characters are the same level, and I don't want to show up at tables with a culture built on status badging based on access locked-out content.
