You may be one of the responsible ones - in fact, I'm sure most are - but that doesn't alter the fact that a large proportion of your 'training' is left up to you, rather than to those who have the experience and knowledge to guide you, and that is not right.
That said, the vast majority of airline recruiters don't give a damn what you did in your hour-building phase; they just want to know you have the licence! It's only when talking hypothetically about what they'd like you to have under your belt before you come to them that they get exercised about the ATPL syllabus.
Scroggs