Just my opinion, but having flown with a variety of pilots over the years I see a pretty solid trend that airline track aviation students are better at entry-level airline flying. No wonder since they were aimed at that role from day one. So I agree with the FAA that such programs can reduce the hours needed to act as a multi-crew pilot in that role. On the other hand, if you put one of these thousand hour pilots in a 40 year old rat trap alone at night shooting hand flown approaches to minimums, an exemption is not a good idea for that group. The paradox is that group does not need an ATP at all for 135 IFR, which is probably not a wise thing because the skill level is quite high in that type of flying.