Its easier to have a 95% pass rate when there was a glut of pilots and you can be choosy. All the airlines probably had somewhere near that when new hires spent more years building time.

There is a crisis of fundamentals out there...partly due to less basic experience. Airline training departments can always improve, but places like AWAC have been teaching the CRJ 200 for a long time...its not like they got bad at teaching this airplane.

The general candidate is going to be less experienced on the whole from now on...either the airlines expand the training footprint or sponsor more training academies...or something else...in any case it appears that many candidates will need more training since compromising the standards is out of the question.