Have heard of proposals for an "Airline" licence which would concentrate on multi crew ,FMS,CRM,SOPs ,use of simulators etc, and far less on single engine day VFR flying.With this type of licence the pilot would be restricted to airline flying and could not do a charter in a Baron single pilot without further training.
This however ,would not be zero flight time and would still involve some light aircraft time.
It seeks to specialise in Airline operations only ,which is probably all the students will do in their career.
Ag flying is treated as a speciality,how many ag pilots are trained for CAT 11 approaches,or need to be? How many airlines train their pilots in crop spraying ?
Aviation is becoming more specialised ,like the medical profession.Prehaps the licensing system needs to change ?