I think there was a rush to judgement over the 15 commands and some BA F/O's were behaving like a 'spooked herd', worrying that this may impact on their own promotion prospects.
Now the scenario has evolved where low seniority 767 pilots can parachute off of the 767 as they are backfilled by BMI flight crew.
If more BA F/O's understood this, there wouldn't be so much talk about resigning from BALPA after the holiday cash payout.