Hmmm - time in the company perhaps since that is how it is done in the civvy world apparently - it's not down to how good or suited you are, just that you are next in line - great system
Perhaps you are guilty of seeing the helicopter world through that very small prism of NS offshore ops and making your judgements about pilot skills in a pretty undemanding role.
No, not time in the company. To get command, possibly. To get a TC role definitely not. You really have no idea what you are talking about. As usual. If it were time in the company we would have a lot of very old mil TCs, but we don't.
As to NS flying being undemanding, it is generally routine, I'll grant you. But a pilot's attributes and relevant skill set are nevertheless important, for example an ability to get on with your colleague who has to sit next to you for maybe 8 hours is more important than the ability to fly an ILS in a gale AP out with one hand, whilst using the other hand to measure your fellow pilot's attributes with callipers. So, if you interview anything like you post on here, you would have no hope of getting such a job. You just don't have the skills.