Yes it makes sense to put the youngsters on the computers, if you want them put through a course quickly, therefore on the cheap.
I've been over 40 years in this business and I know you can take a kid out of an amusement arcade and they would do a quicker job than I ever could pushing buttons. Forget about flying skills as they don't rate very highly now if at all, among management types, as it is all about money. Experience of the older pilots? Not worth a damn now. Airbuses are "un-crashable" aren't they? Except when they are blown up or otherwise interfered with.
Pilot less aircraft here we come and we had better get used to it.
"If it ain't Boeing I'm not going"