@Cody265 You say my whole premise is wrong, but you are just out here talking out of your wazoo firing off "best guesses". We are not talking about losing the guest favorite status. We are talking about never getting it in the first place, about still not knowing exactly what it is based on, about how no one at AirBnB support can do anything about it, etc.
To me, it looks like they rolled out an algorithm that swept through all properties in a phased approach, scanned each property once, assigned this badge not based on the criteria AirBnB stated, then never ran it again. They probably realized that it was not assigning the badge correctly and instead of running it again to pick up the qualified properties that were missed, decided to never run it again to avoid further mistakes. I have screenshots from multiple conversations with different support reps and ambassadors that say I meet all qualifications for the badge, and to just wait patiently until it gets applied. If the algorithm is run daily, then how am I still badgeless?