Glad to hear you got upgraded. That's a long flight. I don't know if we'll ever know how or why one gets upgraded. Remember the GUCs I waitlisted for y'day? I cleared overnight so there's still half of delta one available and I would have had to waitlist from when I booked months ago if I had intended to use a GUC. Yet I waitlisted y'day and cleared overnight. Of course, half of the C+ seats are still open and they didn't clear anyone into those.
I think it's just a sign of what's to come: our GUCs will get us into C+ in the future, and in order to get to delta one, we'll have to use 2 GUCs. Even if the verbage says differently.
Enjoy SYD.