It is strange how passengers are willing to do all kinds of daft things to save what v can be an insignificant amount of money. Fly FR to nowheresville international because its 40 Euros cheaper and then spend 50 Euros on the longer transit.
Happens all the time with aviation, A380 is a really nice pax experience 773 pretty awful, noisy , wallowing ride and cramped but the seat cost is fractionally lower so that's where the finance people want to put their money.
Personally I think the 380 is far from dead partially due to pax appeal and partially because of the need to maximise revenue per slot at a lot of airports, biggest weakness for it I think is the lack of cargo space compared to the long triple .