If you have another 20 years flying left then it does not matter if you get your command within the next tree years or not.
I suspect that those moaning over this are in exactly the same way as the bean counters that run this airline counting their chips every night.
The real issue that then remains to consider; is what am I doing to my wife and children (in the long term) by coming here. There is no future for them whatsoever and they will have a very unrealistic view on the world.