Absolutely, you (and STW) are right: nobody will (nor should) care about the pilot’s plight.
Except STW doesn’t care about all those people you mentioned either.
He’s a (multi-?)millionaire in HKG and he’s allright Jack. Doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the state of aviation that he will soon leave behind, nor the people it involves.
STW doesn’t believe in fighting for anyone but himself and he’s quite good at that!
But at least he’s honest about it, so that puts him one ring above most of them/us.