Boeing and Airbus both considered it on other types...

Pilot comfort?! It's obvious that Airbus has but I don't think Boeing gives a rat's ass and no airline cares about our comfort. We're already a bunch of overpaid prima donnas to them.

"Pilots do not buy airliners--accountants do"

This is truer now more than ever. :(

Precisely and a great example of this is the 757-200 & 737-900. Pilots love the former and hate the latter, but accountants love the latter. Look which one is being bought by the airlines.

There's no doubt the 757 is a more capable airframe, but your point falls apart when you try and substantiate it by which one is being bought.

757 production ended in October of 2004.

Lol, well they generally don't end production of planes that are selling well...

Precisely. If the B757 was such a "great" airplane to airline execs then the orders would have kept flowing in and production wouldn't have ended. It WAS a great airplane and I've got time in it, but then again I didn't have to pay the MX and fuel bills for it.