Pringle. I am just trying to provide a balanced view. It does not effect me either way. I am an Instructor, I have over 3000hrs and I have no desire to work as an Instructor for a job or work for an airline.
My experience has been that the type of people who are interested in becoming instructors are people who have time and enthusiasm to put into it. They are the sort of people who will stick at it and not run off when the first airline job appears.
As far as handling skills are concerned it ay be true that some of them need refreshing on some of the basic stuff, but that is what the FI course is for. Trust me, I have met many of the low hours hour builders who could not handle an aircraft for toffee either. I think that having the view that someone who has had the 'structure' of the CPL somehow has more experience than a PPL with real flying time under their belt is a bit naive.