Obnoxious maybe, but asinine comments like "slowly understanding they have to go into reverse" or "missed the boat" might attract a strong rebuttal from the guys who left and are thriving.
To the OP, a select few Captains may well earn 3M HKD/year (Management, C&T), but it's not consistently achievable by the average line guy and would take years of service to achieve. By which point, the handbook (not a contract) would have been revised downwards many times, as it has been already. You have zero control over future earnings at CX.
I too could produce ALPA data on the $1M (USD) club at the US majors, but I'd never hold it up as realistic earnings during normal times.