The answer to your question is no.

You have a rather large comprehension gap regarding the businsses models of various types of airlines.

The legacies do hub and spoke, which is the only effective way to link small towns into their network, especially overseas.

LCC's typically have a different model:

SWA focuses on city-to-city, but only serves cities which are large enough to support several NB flights each day.

Jetblue (and Virgin) tend to do high-yield coast-to-coast flights, or link other lucrative markets.

Allegiant connects small/medium towns to vacation destinations.

Etc, etc.

The subcontractor thing for the regionals which feed legacies has a purpose. The FO pay at majors has to be more than junior military pilots make, or they would only come to the majors after they retire and get their pension. But if regionals paid mainline wages the entire regional feed system would operate at a loss, and would exist only to the extent that it brings feed to the hubs. Many, many small towns would lose air service. Does the system get abused? Yes. Lowest bidder is a bad idea, you get bottom feeders which skirt some of the fundamentals of safety, and you end up hiring anybody who meets FAA mins when pilot demand is high.

The legacies are not going anywhere, and the only thing which will kill the regionals is lack of cheap new-hires. If the pax really want good customer service they are probably going to have to stopping "sorting by price" when they buy tickets on orbitz. If they "sorted by quality", the market would respond.

I admittedly prefer the corporate culture of some airlines to others. But that's a personal call. Somebody asked one the UAL pilots in mil unit if he was embarrassed to be seen driving to work in uniform lately...he said "nah my maserati has tinted windows"