Huh? More options are good. If there is only 1 or 2 flights and these have no availability for awards or reasonable fares when you want to go, then the so called strong alliance isn't much good. Worse still many places are not served at all, and even more routes have service - not much use having service to both origin and destination if flying between them requires routing via other places thousands of miles off course (eg ICN-NRT-PEK).