I don't know if you have watched your own video post but Dick says upgrade time is currently 4 years, no different to what has been posted here.
If you read the propaganda it mentions pilots being able to take bases, go and ask the CX guys how easy it is to take a base in Oz, then ask them when their command is coming up on the base......never.
Go and ask some of the new second officers what sort of place their housing allowance is getting them in HK.
It used to be good, not now.