What a laugh!
I dont see anything wrong with any of the paths really.
If anything, the old way has always seemed to me to be the more 'dodgey' option, throwing a low experience pilot into single pilot ops doing all those scary bush pilot things as apposed to puting them next to a experienced captain flying from one big airport to the next to learn the ropes, which i think is much more aligned to what happens in every other industry.
All this 'buy your job' bull**** peole go on with, what the hell do you think little johnny in grade 1 is doing? his parents are paying for his education just like every other kid in australia has for decades and will until the day johnny graduates as a doctor, lawyer, whatever! Its the way the world turns people, why is it suddenly criminal when you replace 'doctor, lawyer whatever' with 'pilot'? Every one in GA brought their <5700kg endorsment and CPL didnt they? Its the same thing, just a smaller scale.
Pick which way you wanna go, and everyone else have the decency to be nice and respect their decision.