Bruce Wayne sounds like MO's right hand man and justifies his argument from an airline management point of view. NOT a pilots point of view. He seems to have forgotten the different models concerning LCC's and Service airlines.
When one has taken the P2F route you have justify yourself. It is without doubt that many pilots around the world blame this phenomenon on the degrading T&C's. Furthermore I have seen a degradation in the handling skills of the next generation of pilots. This is because the industry encourages dependency on automation. Those turbo prop boys get lots of it where as the P2F jet boys don't. Is the standard of pilots getting better. In my opinion the answer is no.
We are churning out pilots from the auto-flight factories and they are a product of their environment. after all you get what you pay for. And with the dog eat dog mentality of society. Standing up for what is morally correct is quite understandably thrown out of the window.
Do the young guns get treated badly P2F or non P2F well definitely not in any flight decks I have operated in.