Hello!
All more or less correct (if that "chauffeur" stuff was really expected from you), but I object to:
it's hard to stay proficient when you only fly 200 - 400 hours in a year.
It is not the flying hours that make you proficient, but the number of sectors/take-offs/landings. Sitting in the middle of Europe, we rarely fly longer than one hour legs, which means that in my 300 - 350 hours I do almost 400 approaches and landings. At least twice as many as most longhaul pilots who fly straight and level for 1000 hours per year!