Fair enough. Conspiracy aside (which I don't really care about) I prefer to make my decisions on the risks of missing a connection or a meeting. On that basis I stopped flying with AA around 3 years ago.
BTW when were you last on a TATL flight from Manchester? All this stuff about 'one-stop flights to the house of mouse' is pretty patronizing, slightly offensive and wide of the mark. I last flew Stateside yesterday on a near full A330 with no-sign of any potential mouse hunters.