Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately it is discount Y for me (in the academia), so Emerald is hard to reach. But with the new enhancements of the QR program (and of OW first-class lounges at HKG now apparently serving cafeteria food...), I think it might make sense to reassess whether getting Sapphire with Qantas (doable with my flight pattern) might be the best approach, providing more value than Qatar Emerald.