beats having 20 people list inside an hour prior and blow your chances of making a flight. With TOC everyone lists 24 hours out and makes things far more predictable.

the difference in pilot seniority between a June 2021 hire and a June 2024 hire (3 years) is about the same as between a June 2021 hire and a June 2001 hire (20 years). Someone hired this year can look forward to decades of getting beat out by tens of thousands of employees and their families all hired within 3 years of them.