It should be no surprise that students trained solely on a simulator (virtually) are in the short term better prepared for airline ops.
For me the MPL will be the difference between 'true aviators' who started in a light aircraft
Seems to be yet more ignorance of the MPL. There is still a fair amount of actual flying in light aircraft involved before concentrating on simulators later in the course.
Is there any truth from some reports of trouble on flightdecks between MPL holders and some of the pilots from the PPL, ATPL, CPL, IR system where the latter is angry about how the former got their license?
If this were true - highly unlikely - anyone who allows personal feelings to intrude onto the flightdeck does not deserve to be there.
They say on their web-site that they are training pilots for easyJet. Not very likely at the moment!