well you're entitled to your passionately expressed views, i believe that primarily we each take the best decision for ourselves out of the available options, its that simple, so i'm certainly not whining and i have no regrets, which is apparently what you'd like to believe. I enjoy my job (the day to day stuff) but at the same time theres nothing more i can get from the company that i actually want and the cons now outweigh the pro's. I think this is the way lots of the senior FO's feel.
Also, as for airlines jumping on the FR bandwagon, i think you're letting the other airlines management off the hook a bit there. Nobody has held a gun to anyones head in all this, it has been an industry wide correction which was waiting to take place, the low co's have just been at the cutting edge, shall we say. It wont last though, its just a transitional stage during the rapid expansion of the low co's. The legacy carriers will start to hammer them in terms of value for money at some stage i think. all the best.