It may sound a little rose-tinted, but it is nevertheless correct. EK will make it it's business to screw QF the way QF has tried to d to everyone else for the last 40+ years of my memory.
QF won't get their ands on cast-off EK 777's-despite their age and EK's desire to get rid of them, they are too valuable. QF has, and will continue to ignore the 777 as the death of the 747. Perhaps the ridiculous gummint protectionism of QF, and successive generations of QF management convincing themselves of the rightness of their feeble opinions will actually be QF' obituary.
TM