i'm not sure how you can determine what people's axes to grand are.
sometimes it is a bit more obvious, like when one looks at the ff programs to which the poster belongs and it correlates will with them dissing the competition.
we who live here full time and must use airlines as one would a bus or train on the mainland, are intimately familiar with the ins and outs of aq and ha.
i'll 'fess up to not knowing ha more than a couple vacation flights koa-hnl-ppt etc., which we liked. and we have not lived here full time all that long, nor were out great grandparents born here, and most of our aq flights are koa-hnl to hop ua to the office in tokyo and meetings beyond, or ua from koa toward the mainland (sea office) and beyond.
that said, for the koa/hnl jumps, aq and ha do not seem all that different. and darned if i will get suckered toward one or the other by the fud spread by ffs of the other.
hawaii is a very small place.
actually, it's kinda large. it's just that everybody is at about max two degrees of separation. if you grew up in a very small town, it's not a major change.