Experience simply isn’t related to hours flown, as was alluded to previously to by misd-agin
I just happened to pick up D.P. Davies his book again, “only” 5000+ hours, but I doubt I’ll ever reach the experience this gentleman had in my whole career.
Flying a widebody in cruise teaches one very little about flying. I now teach how to fly a widebody, and although my hours now number well in to the 5 digits, the hours in cruise didn’t matter all that much..
In my humble opinion exposures and practise is the key, not flight hours. If you get the opportunity to learn how to properly fly your aircraft in varied conditions, you’ll be ever so much better then if you fly 20k hours across the Pacific with the autopilot engaged.