All this quibbling about credit hour comparisons, etc, is perhaps missing the point.
Consider this: in 10 or 12 years time, there’s about a 99% likelihood that there’ll be no 744, no 380 and no 330 - leaving a fleet of 787s and 350s to do all of QF’s traditional international flying, plus whatever ULH stuff they bring in. With the ‘traditional’ LH EA completely gone.
Also, it’s not hard to envisage a scenario where Sunrise gets up, with masses of publicity, banner-waving, and boasts of game-changing - all in time for the 100th anniversary. Alan gets to bathe in the glory of all this, prior to departing into the sunset with GT et al strewing a carpet of rose petals in front of him. Then, after a couple of years, someone decides that the Sunrise business case isn’t as good as it first looked, and those routes get quietly dropped. So you’re back to the traditional LH stuff, but on the new EA that was ‘required’ for Sunrise to go ahead.
Either way, the old EA is gone for good, with no guarantees whatsoever of the promised growth. This is the real agenda, IMHO, and Sunrise is just a sideshow.