Read the above reports and tell me most people don't think they have to earn their RH seat. 1500 hrs make them earn it and make them safer pilots. No 250 hr pilot is really safe, he is just licensed. How would you like to get heart surgery from somebody just out of Med school? I wouldn't.
My first ATP student in the Citation Jet had no clue I had never trained anyone before. I waited until he passed to tell him, you were my first.