Some context from JB.
I live in base and I happen to like our reserve system and bid it on purpose. Could there be improvements, sure. I have bid a line twice this year(so say 130 hours of flight time in those two months) and yet here we are in august and I have a total of 207 block hours for the entire year. My QOL is pretty damn good.
Last year finished with just over 300
Both the Covid years were under 100, but that’s an anomaly
2019 was 270.
We can have a reserve system that goes senior enough(especially in bases where people live) that only those who want it get it. There was a couple times in years passed where the most junior pilot was junior maned into a line in September and October in MCO.