I am sure there will be people reading these posts cursing this newish qualification and it could mean in the future reducing T's&C's for the rest of us.
It will as it's designed on the assumption that your first job will be in a multi crew environment. Hence the self improver will be further removed from the scene. No more working as an FI or flying air taxi. So it should mean more pilots in the market and lower Ts&Cs (with my logic anyway). In my mind it's just making the right seat of an airliner easier to get to (not literally perhaps) by making it the only possible way of you flying to earn.