A380 is also quite a fuel-inefficient plane. It optimizes for passenger load per aircraft seemingly at the expense of everything else.
Hope it's around for many years.
8 hours of noisy bus ride? Weird, I never found the A380 like that and it's not as if I was up front or anything. Engine noice was minimal, fairly comfortable. Maybe just lucky.
Having said that, I recall a distinct difference between airliners. Qantas A380 wasn't as nice in comparison to the Emirates.