I doubt you were ever a flight instructor S Monkey.
Anyone who ever was an instructor will agree that your opinion is BS.
No offense to flight instructors meant, of course and yes, I was once a flight instructor and ended with considerably more than 1000 hours of instructional time before joining the airlines.
I'm not saying that 700 hours flying as a GA instructor isn't useful, but as a measurement of one's flight experience, there isn't much difference between 200 hours and 700 hours flying unless of course, during those 500 hours, you progressed to more complex aircraft. When I was instructing, 500 hours translated to about 9 months of flying in the same aircraft under the same conditions.