It doesn’t seem financially sensible to have a dedicated engineering facility and a new build, specialty hangar, for small fleet of just 12 A380
Precisely why scale was never a part of the plan.
Firstly, Fort Fumble "competitively tendered" engineering between itself and John Holland. Strangely convicted felon and then QF CFO Gregg was simultaneously on the board of the Leighton Holdings..No conflict there.
Having lost the "tender" QF engineering lost a few people, then of course Fort Fumble undertook said fleet reduction.
Said fleet is never again to be a scale that would economically justify (let alone national interest) a heavy engineering structure.