Let's forget about the unfortunate change of equipment (losing the preferred seat) and the good lunch in the lounge.
Of course, any pax is happy to be upgraded from Y to W on a very-full flight. It seems to me that the satisfactory resolution would have been to move Goldorak to W as there was a meal loaded and many free seats. What I find unsatisfactory, and AF-like, is the forth and back and forth.