Icarus,
Experienced pilots get paid for what they can do, not what they do.
Your statement may be true to a point about day to day airline operations but the reality is when the sh#t hits the fan management are the first to pat each other on the back because the experience of the crew have saved the day and their KPI driven bonus has been saved.
Maybe these incidences are becoming less and less, but would you gamble on your families lives as part of the traveling public that that trend will continue?
Things usually go in cycles and regularly come back to bite us on the ass.