Believe it or not, money and international flying are not the highest priority for everyone. I can see not being interested in a legacy if you don’t live in one of their bases. If you’re a Floridian dead-set on staying put and don’t want to commute, you start running out of options quickly.

Garage to gate for me at JB can be done in as little as 45 minutes. My wife and I love our home and where we live. I flat out refuse to commute and taking a legacy job (with the exception of AA) means uprooting our lives. Not worth it.

I also have no desire to fly a 777 around the world. I did all that fancy international pilot stuff before I came to the airlines and I find it unremarkable and tiresome. I’d fly east coast turns for the rest of my career if I could and after 6 type ratings I’m perfectly fine with the Airbus being my last. I haven’t touched a plane in almost a month and the beach has been mighty fine the past few weeks.

Not saying this is the case for OP, but just my perspective.