The first acknowledgements that modular was just as good as integrated started popping up a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, largely so as a selling point for some non-complulsory "airline preparation" courses that were "designed to bridge the gap between both routes". Right now, when most cadet programs are up in smoke and won't be back for some time, the "guaranteed job in the end" selling point of integrated is dead in the water. And, after dozens of conditional offers were pulled from integrated students within weeks, people will be quite wary of all "guaranteed job" promises in the near future.
From an airline standpoint, integrated courses were appealing mainly because of one thing - low training risk. Candidates got pre-assessed by the school before they were invited for an interview with the airline, theoretical exams came before any flying to weed out those who didn't have the motivation to get on the books and were there only for the fun part... That's all well and good - but are there no other ways of verifying someone's attitude, aptitude, skills and motivation? I think that there are plenty. And, if they find their way into airline assessments once cadetships are back, there will be no benefits whatsoever to an integrated course, as opposed to a modular one provided by an ATO whose standards of training have been verified appropriately.