Barclays Miles&More card companion ticket benefit is a joke

On the surface, the card seems to have two main benefits. 1) it prevents points from expiring. Normally Lufthansa group points expire after 3 years, regardless of the activity on the account. 2) annual companion ticket.

I have thoughts on #1 as well, but especially #2 is a BIG joke. They advertise this benefit very heavily but there is no merit to it. Apparently the revenue ticket needs to be paid in "full fare", which was roughly 10x the public fare. So, instead of buying a $1400 ticket that was publicly available, I needed to buy a ticket worth $13000 in order to get the companion ticket.. not to mention i was still required to pay the taxes and fees on the companion ticket.

If the benefit #2 is the reason you want to get this card, stay away and save the annual fee for something else.