I have said that it is not your qualification that makes you a good pilot, it is your skill and attitude, and most of that comes through experience.
If it was the qualification, then I would be as good a pilot as you (or any other IFR pilot) the day after I got my ticket. I don't think so. That ticket really only means that I am considered safe enough to go out there and learn.
Have to stick up for Walrus here - I've met some absolute tossers who have JUST scraped through a CPL flight test and there is no way I would like be called the same kind of pilot as them.
I believe experience, combined with the attitude, and training, all come together in many, MANY different ways - with the total package not always being the most desirable.
I think that skill and attitude count for a lot, I most of mine I am sure I gained through experience.
