CX used to take DEFO's and the min was a couple of thousand hours jet. They now only ask for an ATPL licence with 500 hours multi and it's called TT.
Maybe English is not your first language so you don't understand that by comparing the two like that you are implying that TT is the new DEFO.
I have never advised expats not to join. Please read my post more carefully.
DEFO and DESO will never come back. Don't think that will work.
Yes it would, they had people with thousands of hours queuing up for a jobs. DESO 3000+ hours with multi crew time, command time, jet/turboprop time. DEFO 6000+ hours with airline command time, widebody FO time, military jet time etc.
Along with the above there were a descent number of local cadets also getting in through ab-initio.
Again you should not lecture people on things you do not fully comprehend. Maybe your second hand info is out of date or you misunderstood.