Logically I can understand why people should leave a regional. However, there may be certain circumstances that you’re just unaware of that is keeping them there. Like, needing to take care of a loved one, a recent death in the family and their life just completely flipped upside down in a multitude of ways that they didn’t see coming, weren’t planning for it, etc. I’m not in those types of circumstances, thankfully, but some people might be. Don’t judge someone’s choices. I couldn’t imagine trying to get through training at a major and Ive got my head wrapped around all these things and can’t focus on the training and I was better off staying put at my regional while I get my life back on track, get my ducks in a row, etc. It might seem ‘dumb’ to some of you, but I can promise you that if you were in their shoes you wouldn’t appreciate the ‘screw your reasons for staying, just leave your regional now, your wasting your time there’ crowd. Granted, some people are still at regionals because they like being the big fish in the little pond, but that’s not everyone though.