Who gives a rats ass if an ATPL is harder/equatable to a BSC/pub quizz? Seriously? Did your balls ever drop? Get past playing who's conker is bigger or harder. Are you the same types who bragged about your school grades but cried when you got decked on a night out in the real world? Catch yourself on. I couldn't careless what anybody thinks of me, what anybody thinks of my professional qualification over their wine and cheese party. Screw those types. Shallow buggers as insecure as anybody.
What I care about is whether an employer values that enough to pay me right and give me a lifestyle that won't hurt my health, allowing me a fair slice of my own (I own it) life whilst I head to retirement. Right now, it doesn't matter what the qualification is worth. The supply is faultless. I could start the most impossible qualification known to man, with 30 years training tomorrow. Other than trying to impress your mates down the pub it's worthless for finding a job if no one values it as being in short supply. Think metals . Think 'tin' and think 'gold'. It's supply and demand. Who gives a **** how hard it is. Some in aviation will be eternally stuck in a middle class world. They need to wake up, get used to being a blue collar worker and realize flying aeroplanes is just another work place, the same as any industry subject to the same principles.