The Tripler is a "sexy" aeroplane to fly - the Dugong, unfortunately, isn't!
That maybe the feeling of a fair degree of pilots however the average passenger couldn't care less about a 777. They wouldn't even know the difference between a 777, A340 or an A330. But they certainly know an A380 when they see one and many would fly in it in preference to most other aircraft, (if only because it's the big new thing).
And even as a pilot, there has to be something "sexy" about hauling nearly 570 tonnes of the latest aerospace technology into the sky with 288 000 lbs of thrust behind you.