Supply and demand - yawn.
10 years ago easy were handing out 5 figure golden hellos because they couldn't get enough pilots. Now it's the other way around. Soon it might go back the other way! Who knows.
Don't expect too much moaning from current EZY staff. Those who "prostrated themselves before the company" a few years back as you put it Lord Spandex Masher, are now sitting in the LHS on a good contract and have amassed life changing quantities of EZY stock.