In some cases yes, in other cases its generous ATA relief. Maybe the net result will in fact be a "gain" in pilot staffing. But this never should have been allowed to be even a partial "cost neutral" proposition.

Increasing the amount of ETOPS flights with longer flight time by a factor of hours with 2 pilots at the controls with no legal way to rest or take a break of any kind, potentially resulting in 3 hour single pilot oceanic ops if one pilot, who had no rest break, is suddenly dealing with everything in the event of an incapacitation just to "help pay for" an extra hour behind the door or or a shorter duty day after an early wake up or whatever is a horrible way to approach a complex safety issue.

Oh you want relief on some of these risky fatigue inducing rules? OK, let's see where we can add in an "acceptable" amount of additional fatigue to "pay for it".

Its bad enough that domestic flights will be able to be unaugmented with just a 2 person crew, but at least the vast majority of those flights are never far away from an airport. But to do this to ETOPS just to spread the cost around is sickening. If that ends up in the final ruling and ALPA supports it, ALPA will continue to lose credibility over all and in this case WRT safety. Likewise if the final ALPA endorsed rules contain a "domicile reset time" of 36 hours or some nonsense, even more credibility goes out the window. You can't just flip schedules like that and ALPA and the ATA and the FAA and NASA are all well aware of that. Mid trip domicile resets to pretend everything's "circadian cool!" just so you can save the cost of one FO is off the charts bad but will probably happen anyway because all parties involved rolled over in the name of costs in some areas to maybe help other areas.

Its great that some of the rules will enhance safety, it really is. But NONE of the other rules should make things less safe just to achieve a net gain.