I know it's not fantastic but there's no taking away from the fact that after a few years (perhaps more now with reduced hours), you will have an unfrozen licence and some good experience to enable you to go looking for better T&C's.
Its not that simple though. Airlines with "better T's & C's" as you put it, are struggling to stay afloat because of this very business model that people subscribe to. The employee cost base is simply higher at other airlines thus reducing profits thus reducing T's & C's. Better T's & C's will not be around when you reach the 2500-3000 hour mark, up unless you plan to move to the Middle East, and it isn't all that great out there now.
"We" as a community of pilots need to stop this self destructive process that we have allowed happen. The only way we can do this is via a union, but they seem (as is usual with unions) all words, no actions.