Laugh, well we may.
How different to the mid to late seventies.. where 2500 hours plus 500 twin time was the minimum… unless you were an instructor or chose your daddy (or mummy) well.
The hilarious bit about the wankers in recruitment in those days was that they never understood that a a 250 hour bare bones fresh CPL holder was every bit as good a gear retraction device as any 4000 hour GA “hard man”.