There are tons of owner operators who fly a lot more and are more current and better equipped than many professional crews.
Yeah, but, in the context of the original question, there will be a huge gap between ^^ that, and an entry level pilot wanting to fly light jets. The owner operators described above are not where they are now being described as "better equipped" with a few hundred hours of piloting time.
Low utilisation of business jets always comes along with a crazy hourly cost. If buyers would make their calculations themselves before buying (instead of believing the brochure and the sales representative) they would charter a Citation Excel or simiar sized thing for their trips, travel in comfort, get free food and drink on their trips and still save enough money to buy themselves a new Porsche every year.
Yup. 'Applies to more aircraft than just light jets....