When I went through AQP recurrent last year I wana say I was one of the first ones to go through and it was very straight forward, on the other hand I'm not sure how AQP as an initial would be. I can't imagine our instructors would sign people off that aren't ready, and iirc you get 2 loft sessions to prepare you for LOE. I'm really surprised to hear of this many failures because every facet of training on that plane was top notch from my time on it.