My husband has around 2700+ hours. He's still pretty early in his career so he hasn't reached captainship with his current employer. Sadly no PIC hours (according to FAA Part 121 regulations; according to EASA, he does have around 1000 turbine PIC) and no diverse course assignments. Just FO. But like you said, the forecast is a mass hiring spree across the board and there's always that looming horizon of retiring captains. One step at a time and he will get to where he wants to be eventually.