I despised reserve and I live an hour from my base. I felt like the companies b!tch. Nothing says "you're my b!tch" like being reassigned an out and back turn while flying the last leg of your pairing back to your base and your lineholder captain gets 50% reassignment pay while you get nothing. Or you're passing through a base at the end of your pairing expecting to deadhead home only to receive a message from skeds saying that you've been "out of base" reassigned another day of flying. Or the unlimited SCs and FSs that skeds builds... go to bed at the bottom of a silo with no SCs or FSs left only to be awakened by a skeds phone call at midnight telling you that you have a SC/FS.

First world problems. In base lineholder > in base reserve > commute lineholder > commute reserve

I can't speak to Global reserve life. It sounds like rainbows and unicorns.