...if you don't have access to the funding for ezy, you could be the best in the world but you aren't getting through.
This has always been my view. A cadetship should ideally be about finding the best pilots for the airline,
not the best pilots who can raise £25k. Having said that, there's no shortage of very capable people who can afford to pay the £25k, so it's unlikely to have a substantial effect on the average standard of pilots EZY will eventually end up with.
But anything that has a high chance of getting you into the RHS of an Airbus is clearly still a fantastic opportunity.