Who is the manager (singular) who is the root of the problem? Answer: 'A' and then insert the four letter name of a popular US computer company that specialiases in mail order computers.
Trying to see the logic behind the current personnel policies leads to only one conclusion: current EK management have resurrected a bright idea that was first brought up by another (I think now long gone) star in EK management, (actually an accountant who shared his surname with the WW2 British fascist leader, known universally at the time within the company as 'Miserly bin Beancounter') quite some years ago now, when he suggested at a meeting of very-senior-people that the company should introduce policies that discouraged pilots from staying with the company long term.
Why? Because, in his infinite accountant's wisdom, he could show that it was cheaper to run an airline with the majority of the captains being new to the left hand seat, because those new captains, with far fewer 3% annual increments going into their pay packets than longer serving captains, filled the same seat and completed the same flights more cheaply than their more senior colleagues.
If this is even halfway true, the company seems to be having it both ways, because they didn't pay the 3% increment this year (not for the first time) and they're bringing in experienced captains from outside at first year captain rates of pay.
If this is true, it's a rather stark reminder to pilots just how little regard these people have for any skills we might think we may develop over the years we spend in the left hand seat. With TCAS' insistance that automatics be used to the fullest extent at all times on the line, it would seem they think they don't require experienced people in the left seat.
In their eyes, anyone can do the job so long as he/she follows the many directives from above to the letter, that they seem to think can be written to cover every situation.