Des,
yes, you are quite correct.
With the large number of boneheads taking the easy option and getting Mumsy and dadda to pay for their cadetship, it makes the prospects for those that left the teet for long enough to gain some solid GA experience (command time) all that much better.
That is my point.
What future does a cadet (copilot) have without command experience ?, you need command experience to be in command of a bigger aircraft, yet your time in command of little aeroplanes is a requirement to be in command of the big ones.
And yes, GA experience is obviously needed for future airline crewing ( especiallly for command candidates ), yes there are infact cultural differences between GA and RPT, but that difference is not a huge hurdle.