Thanks! Pooling to QR definitely makes more sense for my family. I will start pooling on QRPC.

Would you know if there's a way to directly credit AY+ Avios to QR directly ? or it has to happen through a point transfer?

I knew these were in a single alliance but what surprised me was AY+ not having the pooling option when BA,QR have it. I researched this and saw they discontinued this in 2020. Hence, though there may be other differences even if there are part of same alliance.