Best Travel Card - low spender looking to start spending much more on travel

General Questions/Possibly relevant information:

• General overview on points sharing/the process of purchasing travel via points. When I log into the Chase portal now with the Freedom Unlimited, there's often far fewer flights available than on Kayak, with worse layovers. Are the options better with premium cards or different banks?
• I'd like to start traveling a bit more, and tend to plan travel when I find cheap flights and then build the rest of the trip around that. I'd like for my travel expenses to start looking something like this:
  • 2 weeklong trips, $2000 each, sometimes double if I put another person's travel on my card
  • $1000 in rental cars outside of those vacations yearly (mix of trips nearby and daily rentals for errands)
  • 2-3 short domestic trips, probably max $400 each all in
  • Up to $1500/year in commuting expenses
• I live in NYC without airport/airline preference.
• No matter what card I open, it will be paid off in full every month.

Credit Profile:

• Current cards: (list cards, limits, opening date) - All paid off in full every month since opening, opened largely for sign up bonuses (or for rewards in the case of Apple). None have annual fees.
  • Chase Freedom (10k, 2014) - I try to remember the quarterly categories but am not great about it
  • Chase Freedom Unlimited (3k, 2016) - one of two I use regularly
  • AmEx Everyday (10k, 2015)
  • Wells Fargo Active Cash (10k, 2017)
  • Citi Double Cash (10k, 2021)
  • Apple Card (10k, 2022) - one of two I use regularly
  • [Not sure if relevant] Authorized user on Amazon prime card for 12 years, I'm not sure of the limit and only use it when the relative asks me to make a purchase for them (ie. gifts for a family I live closer to, Costco items)
• FICO Score: e.g. 820
  • 810 (oscillates between 790 and 830 according to the credit snapshot)
• Oldest account age: e.g. 5 years 6 months
  • 9 years
• Chase 5/24 status: e.g 2/24
  • I'm not sure what this means
• Income: e.g. $80,000
  • $70k
• Average monthly spend and categories:
  • dining $50
  • groceries: $400
  • gas: $0
  • travel: $300
  • other: $300
• Open to Business Cards: e.g. No
  • No
• What's the purpose of your next card? e.g. Building credit, Balance transfer, Travel, Cashback
  • Stronger travel rewards and premium travel benefits
  • No foreign transaction fees
• Do you have any cards you've been looking at?
  • Chase Sapphire
  • Capital One Venture
• Are you OK with category spending or do you want a general spending card?
  • Would prefer a travel one