It may be painful for me to admit this, but I do agree with you here. Those may be the more likely scenarios especially seeing how they aren't willing to go through the effort of consolidating that which they own. The seniority thing however could be affected by the rumored 'early retirement program' which may or may not hit PDT later this year.

But I do think its BS that a guy compensated in the MILLIONS of dollars per year can say with a straight face, "Yea we could do that, and save the company some real money, but well gosh darn it thats just too much stinkin work"