Acute Instinct: my rhetorical question of "who cares" is not about passion. I'd wager that every poster on this thread is here out of the same passion for the airline, the job and a naive belief in some kind of elemental justice. (You know: the vibe of the thing). Whilst common to all of us though, each of us will feel the result differently, and through our own ****e-tinted glasses.
My point is that I am not sure that Any of us with skin in mainline will be able to tell the difference between one outcome and the other.