Well there's certainly an odd mindset around FD, and something/somebody has encouraged it. It's not that long ago we had the poster who seemed to think having a Class One meant you were some sort of superman/woman and now we have this thread.
Yes the industry is being utterly brutal at the moment
to everybody who is involved it in, yes there's lots of scope for distraction on the Flight Deck, but the idea that somehow pilots have to be put in a cushioned box and specially protected from reality.....
Oh and in the context of the parallel discussion about youngsters going into the industry... Having "made the cut"
routinely with over 45 years of flying and having seen the way it was headed before Covid/coronovirus I'm another one who told their now grown up kids not to touch the industry with a barge pole...