Alf,
It sounds like you have had a marvellously entertaining and rewarding flying career.
My own views were perhaps unfair in that they were simply a 9 year snapshot on one particular fleet. I would not at all argue with your point that different roles demand different skill sets. It was simply my view that (in my opinion) some of the people I saw go to TP had "baled out" of a challenging environment, perhaps because they knew they were struggling and their subsequent handling advice to the Sqns was poor to say the least. I am sure other fleets and times had different experiences.