Well if there is recruitment at the top of the ladder then that creates jobs at the bottom.
What we need is for low houred guys to realise that the airlines need them as much as they need the jobs. They might get away with P2F when there is nothing else, but when its boom time and there is lots of guys leaving the locos for better things it puts them in a better position.
Whilst there will never be a shortage of 200 hour pilots I would not be handing over a large amount of cash at the moment for the chance of a job. You may just end up flying with people who had their TR paid for not long afterwards.