They see the one stop on the West Coast as a great advance, which to be honest surprised me but they are the paying public not the Pprune experts.
For Qantas the service is a welcome change from the continued advance to the rear. Just so you are to clear to what we are referring to, the (Australian Government) BITRE data set shows the passengers ex Australia for all carriers. You can count them up yourself, suffice to say what Qantas surrendered, the others enjoyed carrying, particularly Emirates.
A daily service of a 787 needs to operate successfully on this route given the limitations specified, 1,652 times to make up the loss of passengers Qantas dealt itself in the first year of the Emirates 'Alliance'.