When you only have six days of vacation, you don’t want to spend four of them on a boat getting to Hawaii.
That said, I was understandably nervous about my flights there and back; luckily I had no problems and received no mistreatment.
But I must say this:
You know the bar has been lowered severely when an airline can “brag” about the only one left in the US that still serves in flight meals domestically. (Hawaiian Airlines.)