...or the OJTIs at the ACCs likewise?
I am afraid that it is now a combination of beancounters, administrators with no idea of ATC, and some ATC middle managers (to most of whom I would not give the time of day) who have dictated the present scenario. Many of us said at the time that it would end in tears.
The imposition by Eurotrash of the current all-embracing Initial Course (or call it what you will) overloads the newcomers with a whole load of information, much of which they cannot relate to their own experience either on a simulator and certainly not in practice. NATS jumped on this bandwagon and used its introduction to cancel the "Aerodrome training for all" principle which had stood the test of time. It is a cause of considerable concern that controllers will be set in an Aerodrome or Approach or Area mould for years with no direct experience of the other disciplines, then, in their turn, to become managers.