If we’re looking to blame something, the blame should lie squarely with the training side of the industry. The salary structure for Instructors is appalling. They should be paying their instructors multiples more than they do to attract and retain the highly experienced among the pilot body. CASA should regulate to ensure only those with say more than say 5 years of airline (or military) plus another 5 years of solid single pilot charter experience be allowed to instruct.
Instructing must be lucrative enough to be a viable career option, not the hour building, time killing exercise waiting for some airline to employ you - which it has always been.
It’s cheap insurance if this adds say another $20K to the cost of a CPL.
With a few exceptions your 1000 hour instructor’s experience has always been repeating the same one hour in the circuit area 1000 times. The blind teaching the blind. And worse still, it’s a self perpetuating cycle. The standard of which can only get lower with each iteration.
(Disclaimer…. I have never been an instructor, nor have I ever aspired to be one)