Which is too bad since arguably 787 is a more advanced aircraft, while A350 is more conservative. Too bad Boeing management is bent on screwing Boeing engineers and their achievements.
I'm not disagreeing with this, but can you give some examples? As a passenger -- other than the windows -- there's very little difference I've noticed over the course of ~40 flights on each.
From the top of my head, Boeing 787 fuselage sections are formed as a single tube (more advanced, more expensive) while a350 sections are formed from 4 separate parts (older, cheaper technology, easier to repair though). 787 Cockpit is made from carbon fiber reinforced with titanium, while A350 cockpit is a traditional aluminium one. So yes, these things are invisible to a passenger the same way as a software architecture is invisible to a user, but to airlines and to industry as a whole these things are important.