yes but there isn't many people who are both intelligent and capable willing to accept 14k to do all the ****e jobs.
Also as well the fugly system did produce extremely good pilots.
Sticking a 200 hour zero to hero into a survey machine and expecting them to just go and do the job is just plain daft.
2 years being a camera man and all the other jobs will mean that when you eventually do get into the LHS you will know every job on the aircraft and what the procedures are and what to do and what not to do.
A zero to hero will only just be getting usefull by the time they leg it to something else.