Well, good for you, however, if you read the post by cxorcist, his thrust is about management's attempts to impose ASL mk 2 & 3 on us.
They offered 744F Command jobs with pay that was the same as what a year 4 S/O with housing would get and most guys who financially could live on that took the freighter command. Anywhere else on the planet you may wonder why you would take home second officer pay for the lure of 4 shiny bars on the 744 but it suited plenty of guys.
AOA raved on about what a wonderful opportunity it was to get command, without having to wait years on the pax fleet, end result, everyone happy.
Didn't see any imposition.