In a nutshell, after seven years MPL is growing out of its infancy stage and is quickly becoming a shortcut to the cockpit at a lower price for the airline.
Did anybody naively expect otherwise?
Back in my day we had the Cadets (mainly BA), Mil, the Self-Sponsored also on the Integrated (the well off) and the rest of us, BCPL/Self-Improvers. None of us had an easy ride (even the BA folk) back then.
Now everything is dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Where the heck we would be without glass... a scary thought.