My humble opinion is that the industry is being dragged down by cowboy airlines and the clowns who are happy to fly for them. In the case of 'Play', literally.... Clowns flying the airplanes. We've all seen the pictures of them in uniform. This circus behaviour is to the detriment of everyone else, and professional standards across the board. It makes us ALL look bad.
If you haven't had a pay check as a pilot since Feb 2020, take the message, and then for the love of god, go and find something else to do outside aviation.
Surely, we're not all that useless that we can't find something more interesting and rewarding to do for a living. Or is it just the ego factor? "I want to be a pilot above all else, to make me feel better, and impress my friends"? Because that's what it sounds like to me.
I would never lower myself to this. And if I was starting out, or thinking about starting out, in this industry, I would take one look, and run a mile.
That's called integrity. Deal with it.