First of all, and what should be extremely obvious to anyone, is to just apply. I mean, duh.

Second of all, everyone seems to get wrapped around the axle over anything that "adds points" or "subtracts points" thinking the former makes you a ringer and the latter stacks the deck against you to the point of being insurmountable. Neither are the case from what I've seen, as long as an applicant meets the quals of course.

For decades there's been legend and lore about what helps and what hurts, and the entire time results have gone contrary to those much ballyhooed crew van axioms.

While I'm not aware of any "too much time" being a points reducer, even if it is for the sake of arguement, plenty of pilots have been hired with "high time". Almost every pilot hired has had some negatives, and all have lacked some theoretical positive they could have had in addition to what they brought.

The biggest obstacle from someone with "too much time" IMHO is wether or not they think the interview/selection team thinks they have too much time. Pretty much any interview team for any airline will push back to some degree that may seem like "bad cop" to every applicant just to see how they handle it. Its reasonably expected that they are able to do so.

Especially in the age of the "lost decade" and the additional "lost year" we just experienced, I doubt any amount of time would be a disqualifier unless an applicant self manifests it.

IMO apply if you want the job, update regularly and prepare your best if you get the interview. Even if total time somehow deducts points (and I'm not aware that it does) odds are they probably still have more than though points to make the cut off all other things equal.