The “profession” is being deliberately dumbed down by manufacturers and airlines. They tired of or were jealous of the recently passed golden era of lucky pilots who got paid well, had good lifestyles and job satisfaction.
So they are building ever more automated aircraft, training a while new generation of button pushers and are instituting systems which rely less and less on experience, judgement, airmanship and stick and rudder skills..... all in the name of “safety”.
Sooner or later, all that will be needed is something like a bare CPL who can taxi the aircraft out to the runway and line up. At which point, that aircraft will be remotely controlled from a now repurposed call centre in Bombay.
Salaries will drop to minimum wage.
You may laugh at this dystopian vision. But this is the stark future of aviation, why anyone would want to be an airline pilot these days beggars belief. In the name of safety, no human will be allowed to actually hand fly an aircraft.
So the message to the thousands of bare CPL holders is this - go back to Uni, do a decent STEM based degree and see where that takes you.