Nothing has changed in the 30+ years that I’ve been involved in commercial flying, winging pilots ranting about salary and allowances.
My advice is to be smart like I did, have a plan on where you would like to be in 20 years and focus on it. Don’t just focus on being a pilot, up skill yourself in other areas outside of the cockpit. When I left full time flying I took a significant pay cut to do something different in an effort to gain experience in a different area of the industry, it payed off within 12 months and I haven’t looked back since. For me it has been like a domino effect as different opportunities are opening up very regularly.
If I want a change, I can easily get recurrent again and jump back in the cockpit.