Dragun - completely agree but as others have pointed out in different threads in the UK people with those kinds of hours are in 737s and A320s.
Can kind of see management of airlines thought processes when airlines one day set a high mins and people say 'mins are too high', lower the mins and people say 'they are too low'. At what point are they 'just right', and who sets that point?
With good training it seems these sort of processes work out ok in Europe.