Arm Out the Window
AOTW, you make some valid points.
However, if it is competency based training, then surely the candidate must meet the required standards to sit the test. Its quite academic how he got there (150 v 200)as long as he meets the standards. Both the 150 hour candidate and 200 hour candidate are addressing identical criteria on a similar, standardised flight test.
However that option to deliver a 150 hour option will be removed from the Part 141 organisations, and be the exclusive domain of Part 142s. Effectively the "specialist" provider for all the Multi Crew components will deliver the integrated training to the Single pilot, and the organisations specialising in the Single Pilot aspects of Flight Training force there candidates onward for another 50 hours flying, even if they met the standards back at 150 hours.
I must be missing something obvious, and I mean that quite sincerely. But from my side of the fence, its jaw droppingly ridiculous.