Growth at any cost is not constructive at all and certainly just taking on board a bunch of crappy partners is not a recipe for progress, but for decline.

I'd also like OW to focus on delivering its own product in the best possible way without always thinking it should be looking with paranoia to what happens elsewhere.

The idea that a large alliance of rubbish airlines is going to get me to abandon OW just because they might happen to serve a destination not directly served by OW just doesn't add up. I suspect most of us on occasion fly a non OW airline out of necessity. When I do, it mostly just make me appreciate again what I get with BA and the OW alliance. (including TPs and Avios )