That is the way airlines want their pilots trained, far better for them to get a new pilot with 200 hours (i.e. around 50 simulator sessions) with a type rating and instrument rating on the type they will be flying, trained to their SOPs in an airline environment rather than a 150 hr CPL with no multi crew exposure and no idea on how to operate the aircraft they are supposed to be flying.
Good point, except we're all talking about getting your 150 hr CPL, plus a few thousand hours in GA
and then joining an airline. Which airlines are hiring bare 150 hr CPLs?
It is competency based training, meaning, if you do not meet the standard, applicants do not get the qualification.
As opposed to what they do at the moment, which is .... ?