I'm not by any means siding with that guy BUT, if you've never had AQP you may not quite grasp how we're missing out.

AQP encourages learning from the pilot groups mistakes (e.g. in 2017 our biggest issues were ECAMs regarding.... whatever, engine failure in the flight levels. Ok let's do that procedure to make sure everyone is comfortable and current, etc), it encourages going over lots of procedures that we rarely ever ever do (like for example emergency descents, v1 cuts, depressurization, crew incapacitation, gear not down and locked) and learn from it.

AQP is about learning and increasing safety. Non-aqp encourages a whole hell of a lot of d*** measuring in the training department and not a lot of learning. Specifically dealing with Recurrents, not newhire