flion,
You are being a little selective in your appraisal of the change in TRE selection.
You quote one line out of a long paragraph.
We are short of TREs, largely because it is currently a crumby job with lousy rosters.
The company asked a lot of TRIs directly if they'd take the upgrade, only to then inform that, if they wanted to do this admittedly crumby job and take an even further degredation of life stye, they would have, on two days off, to attend the Psychs (and do exactley the same tests they did to become TRI), do a tech quiz, present a brief and interview before a board.
A goodly number told them to jam it!
SO they decided it was sufficient to judge someones suitability as a TRE by observing their performance as a TRI.
Kinda fair enough I would have thought...