No doubt some of you would be shocked by the total number of command hours some former cadets would have, despite checking out as Captains.
To imply that these pilots should be flying circuits in a 152 (or some equally irrelevant type of operation to what they're already doing) to get said hours is even more ridiculous than the ICUS system.
For King Air (etc) operators, obviously attitudes are different. It's a different type of operation in practice.
CS, as for why ICUS is continued to be logged on PF sectors - who knows? Maybe the system is too difficult to change? Maybe it's to meet pilot-on-watch implications in the ops manual? In the end, it doesn't really matter anyway... airliner ICUS time is pretty irrelevant.