Your argument on quantity of time doesn't hold water. If all you do is get 1500 hours in a 150 or 172 I would venture to say you know just as much at your 500th hour as you will know at your 1500th hour beating around the practice area. My guess is that even though they are going to complain about it, every training captain is going to do exactly what management tells them. Also isn't that the job of a good Captain, to train the FO to take his job? I imagine even a low time RJ captain has something to teach a high time fighter guy that is new to the 121 world. I want to meet the guy with the resolve to quit because he doesn't want to have a low time guy in the right seat being trained. I have always been an advocate of QUALITY of hours not quantity but for lack of a measuring stick quantity it is. I would rather have a 1000 hour night freight guy (if you could have that in 135) who is making decisions and flying in all weather without an autopilot over any 1500 CFI that has been riding in the right seat of a 172 telling some student to mind their heading.

I will bet my next paycheck that the rule will change in the next five years. Congress mandated the ATP not the hours. Look at how the FAA has already bastardized it. Use to everyone recommended getting your degree in anything but aviation. Now doing just the opposite gets you a 500 hour credit just because ERAU and UND have deep pockets. How is a guy with a Pro Aero degree from ERAU a better pilot than a guy with a Mechanical Engineering degree from UNC or something like that?

For the record I already have my ATP so I don't have a dog in the fight but I know the government always bows to a big checkbook.