If you work for a proper airline they probably already filter your Notams. But even at that there might be dozens of pages covering Departure point, Destination, several destination Alternates, plus a dozen or more en-route alternates and the FIR Notams too.
Nobody can possibly read them all pre-flight, and expect to take them in.
A typical pre-flight (short haul) might be 45 minutes, 25 minutes of which is probably required for getting out to the a/c and cockpit setup. So, allowing say 15 minutes for weather and Flight Plan checks, fuel decisions, Jeppesen check, company bulletins etc - that leaves about 5 minutes to read twenty or thirty pages of Notams?
Bull****.
Does 'eejit' really read the height of every crane within 5 miles of the en-route alternates (which he may never have visited) and immediately grasp the significance of their impact on the approach/departure procedures without greater study?
No way.
We all know that if we checked every piece of paper thrown at us we'd never get airborne. In fact - haven't certain pilots unions used that as a 'go-slow' in industrial actions?