Gidday Angle.
I and many others here have been flogging that very point for about a year now, and you are absolutely right.
REX took a 60% hit last year, and it looks as though QFLink are going through the same thing at the moment. Certain persons on this forum (I have my suspicions, either Rex management or close to it) have made overtures of a "Stabilisation" of pilot numbers. To have the gall to post such a fantasy, either stems from the result of a completely deluded mind or a personality unable to accept the consequences of their actions, or in this case inaction!
The reality is that before the year is out, REX and QFLink will lose approx 60% more of their most experienced pilots. Pilots that now cannot be replaced.