Obviously, few people are paying attention to the problem. The F PX problem is not about having to make your own meal or get your own drink. People in HK still think a PX means a little ride to TPE to pick up a stranded jet when crew hours have run out, or when filling in for someone sick to end up riding back from EUR or somwhere.
Try endless months of PXing to ANC from NAM, the go back and forth twice to HKG but with another PX on one of those to keep the hours down, then after operating HKG-ANC and clearing customs, staying on the a/c (1-2 hrs of ground time) to PX to MIA and staying on the plane to PX (1.5-3 hrs of ground time) to PX to your base at LAX, covering 3 of the 4 corners of NAM after arriving from Asia, for 1 1/2 days in the plane, perhaps with a few others sharing that small space and the 1 remaining bunk, with no TV. Think I'm making this up? Then you're supposed to drive home, or show up at a terminal and use the 1 ZED partner still available to get home.
Or how about flying 2-man through the night (but not 2-6AM, of course, 205AM-10AM) only to spend another 1.5-3 hrs on the ground before continuing to PX to EUR via another stop, or VIA EUR and continue to PX back to India, or vice versa?
Or how about PXing to HKG only to go back where you came from the next day with the previous day's operating crew PXing you back to where you came from, 10 1/2 hours away, just so nobody gets 1 hour of EFP?