Ah, but your point wasn't about how she should be treated but how she should just stop being pissed about being booted out of the fame zone. Now, as for the MC, I sure do hope he remembers to do just that once 'a better deserving person comes' around.
Well, I don't buy the office argument. People, like life, aren't fair and most don't get what they deserve. More importantly however (and as stated earlier), I don't believe that any person would easily and readily step down to give up position, power, spoils to someone they're being told is their better and thusly more deserving of it. Let alone treat that person with honest respect. This whole scenario assumes a maturity that most people reach (if ever) quite late in their life and, to my mind, is simply too much to ask of a person her age.