The other thing that people fail to recognise in this interminable argument (and I accept fully that some very experienced operators - notably Flintstone, with whom I have locked horns on this many times! - disagree) is that the cost of the base CPL/ME/IR now means that one simply can not take the jobs that Mikehammer (I think it was) alludes to. £12k a year simply doesn't even begin to pay the loan repayments (or as with those like me who didn't take a loan, provide a return on investment).
What's killing this industry is the pincer movement of ever increasing cost of entry and ever decreasing Ts&Cs.
I'm sure that 90% of all newly qualified pilots don't necessarily want to move straight to MRJT operations for any other reason than the financials.
You want to change it, make it a FCL that for Jet operations you must have 500 hours turboprop and for Turboprop ops, you must have 500 ME.
But of course, that could never happen....