Not PC enough
Interesting post LTICX but I fear that you were guilty of not being PC enough.
The experience levels in our cockpits has nothing to do with local pilots, the more senior of whom have been through the system for years and thoroughly so.
The problem will come with the many new joining cadets, from all over the world not just local HK guys and girls, who will fill the cockpit in years to come after us old farts have gone. There's nothing wrong with them except they don't bring with them (apart from a very few exceptions) any experience whatsoever other than what they learned at Adelaide. You can buy experience - CX used to do it and did it well - or you can ignore it. The bean counters just don't care or understand so they ignore it and, I fear, our pilot managers are not listened to when they raise it - and I know they do.