I'd be willing to bet there's a lot of rubbish being spouted by the 'I won't take it if ............' Brigade.
The selection will be inconvenient. Days off, hotels etc etc. not to mention prep time. So if you're going to go through that, in the knowledge that the package won't be great, you probably won't be an SFO, and you'll be a few years to LHS, even if you passed a command assessment at the first OPC, you are probably going to take it if offered. All the 'I've got a good job on a jet I don't need it.' Well you must do or why look to leave to fly Le orange bus. As said above join BA and you'll be bottom rung, with a lot longer to command.
Face it, ezy is the only show in town just now. Ezy know that, so do you. All the bluster counts for nothing.