All of the OW product fare rules are now crisply documented on the Oneworld.com site -- so rather easy to find and unambiguous compared to past years. For your rules see http://www.oneworld.com/ow/air-trave...e-pacific-fare

Your options are to either fly QF or fly AA YVR-DFW-SFO (entirely viable though unattractive), or as Gardyloo implied, use the north pacific crossing (YVR-HKG or YVR-NRT). Tons of options -- YVR has great Oneworld service compared to 99% of the cities in this world!!!! Which adds considerable irony to your complaints. Of course AS would be a great addition to AA or Oneworld, and has a close relationship with QF, but under the current rules there is no way to use AS on this fare type. Even the more liberal GE fare excludes using QF codeshares on AS now (and does include using QF codeshares on some Star airlines, by way of contrast).