with high (personal) standards and experience commensurate with age
In an era when people change companies and even careers well into life (economy wide, not just aviation) is "commensurate with age" becoming unsustainable? If suitable and capable pilots with real command potential are getting scarce is the decreasing pool of people willing to join the industry at the heart of the problem? Not just 19 year olds, but folks in their forties?
Could it be that the entire industry will have to come to grips with a new career model for pilots?
Just askin' ... I certainly don't have any answers.