The vast expense and time spent generating Aircrew, especially Pilots, has long since justified them being in the cockpits where they belong, earning their Flying Pay (or whatever it’s called now. And gender, ethnicity or orientation have no bearimg, IMO, on getting the best of the best into the airframes where they belong. And the same principle applies to ALL specialisations/roles.
Sadly
MPN11 that shows a naivety of what is required for an Aircrew career structure to enable everything that needs doing. You need your SNCO/Junior Officer worker bees “on the tools” flying, but you need your Aircrew Sqn Ldrs, Wg Cdrs and Gp Capts to both Command, Lead and Manage (CLM) - Command the policy for safe and effective policy, lead their Aircrew below them and manage their fighting units, capabilities (people, weapons and aircraft) and direct operational support. So, for every 3x worker bees you start needing a single CLM Aircrew above them doing a variety of roles - Flt Cdrs, Staff Officers, T&E experts and Instructors. Then above those CLM experts you need Sqn Cdrs, DCAW/DDHs, Staff Officers, T& E experts and Instructors. That process only really starts to run thin at 1-star where more generalists are required, but you still need 1-star Force Commanders, 2-star AOCs (ODHs - for FL flying and Trg flying) and a 3-star Air & Space Commander.
When you work that all out you end up with roughly the number of Aircrew that we have in the RAF - funny old thing!!!