One point is that the minimum standards are enough to get started, but not ever enough to be as accomplished as one might like to be. Instead, it appears more common for flight schools to use "student pilots" as their flight jockeys to learn on the job, accumulating hours, but not necessarily conforming to a discipline that teaches and entrenches principles and aspects of actually learning to fly. The student is trapped for having paid for the schooling only to learn instead it was not really the lesson they paid for? For that, the FAA imposed a fine of how a flight school recorded/logged their student pilots’ hours as actual flight experience when in fact they were merely going through the motions without gaining the experience required. One might expect a law suit by those students that felt duped by the school as they certainly paid the price for the lesson... Or, at $20/hr wages, unlimited flight training should also be instilled as an airline requirement for F/O qualification until fulfilling enough hours to be considered genuinely qualified to fly in all flight conditions. The fight for the two person crew and demoting the flight engineer is proving to be a fatal flaw to attaining the best possible career path most every student pilot seeks as they begin to follow their own ambitions and certainly that which the FAA intends to enforce.