You could put another spin to that comment completely and say that basings would be an even more effective method of isolating the pilot body, as seems to be the intention with the design of the new ops centre.
On the point of basings 'roooning' CX, I think the basings just happened to co-incide with (or were a part of?) a change of management style (ASL, B Scales etc), where some bright MBA breezed into CX with a management style he'd learnt at the Frank Lorenzo School of Airline Management, (which I see, if we were to drop the 'S', turns into a rather unfortunate, if all too accuracte acronym; maybe if we were to precede that with a pre-MBA course at the 'Frank Lorenzo Institute of Management', we'd get a really unfortunate/accurate acronym?).