Yes, theoretically it does. But there is way more to it than that. Just like the "historic number of write ups" injunctions some airlines have gotten, there is no direct way for that to ever be enforceable, as long as the actual write ups are for legitimate discrepancies. There could be triple the number compared to a past time period and if they're all legitimate, then they're all legitimate. Period. Could you imagine the courts coming down on a pilot because they averaged 10 write ups in a period and then wrote up 15 in a similar period? So after 10 they can't write up anything anymore? That's just not how it works.

Should airlines be frozen to a historical numbers of reroutes? On time AE conversions? Historical number of MEL's? Historical number of OE trip drops?