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The manufacturers are just responding to what their customers ask for. Airlines, in turn, are responding to what *we* ask for.
We, the flying public, want them to stretch the capabilities of medium-haul narrowbodies as far as possible. We demand this far greater than we demand a viable, scalable supersonic product or even superjumbos like the A380. There's a decent market for ultra-long-haul in a 787/777 sized widebody, and there's massive demand for ETOPS 737s and A321s. We want long-ish $99 flights more than giant planes or fast planes.