Ok you have said this twice and I can see that you are trying to be humble but here are the facts.

I probably made more money this year than most of the DL pilots at my Seniority level, with a greater QOL and more days off. Even including DLs much larger profit sharing. The reason is because we have more aircraft on the top pay scale. That is a simple fact.

Most pilots don't care how big the airplane is. We do care about comfort though. Must of us care about QOL and career earning potential.

Flying international will ALWAYS offer more days off and higher QOL, its just a fact, and the wide bodies will always offer significantly more pay and that is a fact. If you were to take a pilot hired at DL and one hired at UA on the same day at the same age, forget the uncontrollable problems such as mergers, bankruptcy, furloughes, strikes etc...., and both pilots maximize their pay by bidding up the pay scale as soon as it is available, The United pilot will make more money than the Delta pilot over their career.

If you flipped the pay scale you would see people hired into the wide bodies and junior CAs on the 777. Follow the money.......