Absolutely. The MOD recruit keen and driven young people, promise them a fantastic career, then severely limit their prospects by destroying flying training. This is precisely the sort of response I would expect. Good on them, and they are only telling the truth.
The MOD and Press should be asking who made the decisions that led to the lamentable state of flying training under MFTS, and holding them to account.
Leave these students alone...it could have been so much worse.