This is all the inevitable consequence of airlines who have stopped their own training.
Students who have to spend large amounts of their own money will go to the schools that don't fail them - in other words, schools that make it easy, and absolutely minimise the training which might cause them to fail. The same applies to the airlines who cannot man their fleet and make a profit unless they find a way to take cheap, low time, pretty-poor-really pilots. And they all lean on the regulators to 'go easy'.
It is not at all unique to aviation - take a look at railway maintenance for another example.