WWW,
Yep, agreed.
The older guys ( like me
) can wax lyrical about the joys of flying but there's been a paradigm shift in the treatment and provisioning of pilots in the last decade; the new crop seem to coming into the industry with ( to me) unimaginable levels of debt yet confronted with increasingly fragile T&Cs and IMHO very little prospect of enjoying the levels of real pay enjoyed by my generation.
I'm another one actively dissuading his offspring from following in Father's footsteps - as you say, very sad.