The Potter
You seem to be avoiding (or missing) the point.
One should think long and hard about working for Ryanair. It is absolutely true that you will pay for your application to be read, never mind accepted, pay for the sim ride, pay for the course, pay for it back over however long they decide on the day you should.
Nobody has attacked Ryanair pilots. Ryanair pilots are professionals at the end of the day who work in a commercially challenging industry, just like everyone else.
But tell me of an airline that goes and "kicks it's people in the balls" whilst crowing about being the most profitable, fastest expanding etc etc in the industry? Is this commercially reasonable?
It is also a fact that recently recruited pilots have been informed of some "typographical errors" in their contracts. So the goalposts shift. In whose favour?
There is no shortage of work out there! So shop around!